Thursday 23 July 09:50 - 11:20

Hall: 16 - Room 13 SA

Chair: Macqueen Peter

Division: Division 2: Psychological Assessment and Evaluation

In late 2022, The International Journal of Testing published a Special Issue: Technology-Based Assessments in Organizational, Psychological, and Educational Research and Applications. But this pre-dates recent technological advances and in particular the rise of LLMs and Generative AI. Scholarly contributions tend to lag in the wake of the commercial development and uptake of AI and technology-enhanced assessment tools and practices. What are the issues? How do these rapidly emerging developments affect people at work, and beyond? What are the implications for the education, training and development of psychologists and behavioural scientists?


This 90-minute panel-based symposium will explore recent and potential developments, with a Q&A via a Chair and a panel of five distinguished contributors from five countries. Holding significant consulting and/or academic and scholarly roles in test development, use, adaptation and education, several also have a strong leadership presence in international and European testing focused professional bodies. There is provision for ample engagement with the audience in the latter part of the session. Panellists will respond to a short series of pre-determined questions addressing issues such as challenges and opportunities; test development and test/assessment use (e.g. high stakes versus low stakes; small scale versus large scale; test adaptation); education and professional development; fairness; neurodiversity; ethical and effective practice; privacy and data management; and regulation.


The Chair, an IWO psychologist, was a Council member of the International Test Commission for 7 years, and for 10 years a member or Chair of the Tests and Testing Expert Group of the Australian Psychological Society.


Some slides will be presented to enhance communication, but the nature of this rapidly evolving field supports a human narrative approach in July 2026. Active audience-wide discussion later in the session is expected, and encouraged.


The topic is highly relevant to several IAAP divisions, and to the Congress theme(s).