Meyer et al. Questions

1. Meyer et al. (2001) delineate seven major purposes of assessment. What are those purposes? Which ones of these purposes do you think formal assessment would be most necessary to achieve?
2. Meyer et al. (2001) provide a large and fairly comprehensive table comparing the magnitude of the association between several sets of variables taken from a variety of medical and psychological studies. What were their objectives in presenting this table (that is, what are the points that they are trying to make)? Do you accept or reject this argument? Why?
3. Meyer et al. (2001) draw a distinction between psychological testing and psychological assessment. What is the nature of this distinction?
4. How do you interpret the findings on cross-method agreement? What does this suggest for your own work with assessment?