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Present status and challenges of

intellectual assessment in India
Jayanti Basu 
Pages 231-240 | Published online: 12 Apr 2016

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Abstract

Intelligence testing was one of the earliest interests of psychologists in India.

Adaptation of Western intelligence tests has been a focus of psychologists in the
rst half of the last century. Indigenous development of intelligence tests has been
attempted, but diversity of language and culture, complexity of school systems, and
infrastructural inadequacies have emerged as major hindrances to such
development. Intelligence tests are presently used to identify disability, assess
eligibility for welfare, and account for gaps in potentiality and performance in
school, rehabilitation, and guidance. Attention to the upper stratum of intelligence
and identi cation of the gifted is relatively neglected. Tests commonly used for
direct intelligence assessment, and in relation to developmental problems, speci c
learning disability, and autism spectrum disorder, have been brie y discussed.

Future e orts should be directed toward developing intelligence tests suitable for
Indian culture using an information processing approach.
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Jayanti Basu
Jayanti Basu is Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of
Calcutta, India. Her research interests are Social, Clinical and Adolescent
Psychology with special emphasis on clinical psychology, assessment
and psychotherapy processes, adolescent psychology, gender, and
cultural psychology. She is also a practising psychoanalyst. She has
published about 100 papers and book chapters in National and
International Journals and edited volumes, and also authored one book
entitled Reconstructing Bengal Partition: Psyche under a di erent
violence on qualitative and psychoanalytically informed exploration of
refugees of Bengal. She is presently the Editor of the Journal of the
Indian Academy of Applied Psychology.

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