Having been in the field psychological testing and evaluation for over 40 years now, the Philippine Psychological Corporation (PhilPsyCor) has always tried to find ways and means to make the jobs of school testing personnel easier. We have always believed that when psychological testing tools are utilized properly, they will enable our clients to address a basic need of educators ---understanding the students, individually and collectively.

For institutions of learning, assessment tools provide many important instructional and motivational purposes. Among these are: diagnosing strengths and weaknesses of students in an instructional program, classifying students, enhancing student motivation, rating teachers, and assessing course program.

Assessment tools such as a combined mental ability and achievement test provide information about how students are doing, how prepared they are for their scholastic endeavors, and how they have progressed since the last time they were tested. By becoming more aware of the individual characteristics and personalities of the students in relation to their classmates, their schoolmates and their community, schools should definitely be better equipped to deal with them.

PhilPsyCor provides specialized testing for schools, clinics, public agencies and research institutions in a wide variety of applications--for identifying gifted children, diagnosing learning disabilities and mental retardation, assessing attention deficit and hyperactivity, and determining sources of excellent or poor school performance. This type of testing service aims to determine the uniqueness and needs of the examinees so that possible problems may be addressed as they arise.

Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Testing, Readiness Testing, Achievement with Mental Ability Testing and Personality Testing with projective techniques, are among the assessment procedures used.