“Opportunities for Counselors from the Competency Assessment Movement”, 1980 (; backlinks; similar):
Innovations in testing emerging from the competency assessment movement offer counselors new capabilities in helping their clients to understand aspects of themselves and their problems, as well as to establish directions for development and improvement efforts.
New types of tests and measures sample actual behavior more closely than testing instruments previously used. The characteristics they examine are closely linked to performance in a wide variety of jobs, and therefore provide increased focus of assessment on life outcomes.
With this new degree of specificity and criterion referencing, implications for counseling, training, and development efforts emerge more clearly than with other forms of testing.