This article presents Parsons' extensive method of assessment and reviews its incorporation of the developing science of psychometrics in the early decades of this century. The utility of self-assessment, also advocated by Parsons, is discussed. It concludes that the validity of Parsons' fundamental ideas, although greatly elaborated in the past 80 years, is affirmed.
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