ABSTRACT
The word “process” is derived from the Latin procedere, meaning to advance, to progress, to move onward. Individualized assessment directly addresses progressing. From the point of view of a human-science psychology, tests are simplied and specialized versions of challenges that also face clients elsewhere. They are challenges to clients’ progress – to their continuing the courses of their lives. Clients cope with the challenge, whether defensively, offensively, or routinely, as they cope with similar events in similar situations. For certain other forms of evaluation, it is sufcient and appropriate to address only the milestones that have been passed, the achievements left behind. Sometimes such data are used to predict what other milestones and achievements might be reached in the future. Some evaluations regard test proles as products of various cognitive styles or psychodynamics, and thereby attend to process, albeit indirectly. Assessors can, of course, look to test scores and patterns for clues to process, which then can be pursued directly with clients.
