Dave Bartram has now retired from full-time employment. Dave does research in Applied Psychology, Organisational Psychology and Personality Psychology. His particular focus has been on 'Technology-based psychological testing'. He is now an Honorary Professor at Kent University. He is also working with the International Test Commission (ITC) on a set of training modules for people wanting to become test users.
In her own words: " Occupational psychologist is my third career. It has followed being a full-time farmer's wife and mum, then a teacher and lecturer in literacy working in the community and in the prison service both with youth offenders and with high-security prisoners.".
"All psychologists should know about the theory and methods of testing to the level of the EFPA Test User Standards (level 2). It is so important in understanding individual differences in psychology.
I would change the undergraduate curriculum to see the knowledge and skills outlined in the EFPA Test User Standards (as opposed
to the requirements of the limited number of qualifications provided for test users) included in the undergraduate psychology degree regardless of any future of specialism. Those who chose not to test in a future career would then make the choice from an informed position."
Dragoș Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest. He has been active as a consultant for the past 20 years, being involved in and having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), mainly in South-Eastern Europe, but also in South-East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America. Dragoș Iliescu has served in various capacities for a number of national and international professional associations; he is the current President (2016-2018) of the International Test Commission (ITC). He is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books, among them the co-Editor of the acclaimed ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, and the author of an important monography (Adapting tests in linguistic and cultural situations) published with Cambridge University Press. His research interests group around two domains: (1) psychometrics: psychological and educational assessment, tests and testing (with an important cross-cultural component), and (2) applied psychology, especially work, industrial and organizational psychology (with an important focus on occupational health and wellbeing).
