ABSTRACT
It was approximately a hundred years ago that psychological assessment, as a scientific enterprise, got under way. In the latter 1870s and early 1880s Francis Galton carried out a number of studies on individual differences (McReynolds, 1981) that laid the basis for the development of systematic, meaningful methods for the measurement of persons. It is therefore fitting, as we enter into the second century of our discipline, that we examine its current status, problems, and prospects.
