Practical and ethical issues pertaining to test revisions

Revisions of clinical psychological tests are occurring at more frequent in tervals than in the past. These revisions involve such practical issues as the goals of the revision, the economic considerations relating to the revi sion, the methodology of the revision, and the degree to which the revision meets the available scientific and ethical standards governing the use of these tests in individual assessment. A tension between practical and ethic al issues in the test revision process is inevitable and demands the best. of psychologists in their decision making. Test developers, psychologists, patients, and consumers of the test interpretations and recommendations hav e legitimate interests and a stake in seeing that test revisions are applie d with maximal effectiveness and fairness in the broadest sense.