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Principles of Educational and Psychological Testing. 3rd Edition F. G. Brown, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983, pp. 529 + ii.

This clearly written text is more likely to be of use to students of education than students of behaviour therapy. Even for those interested in psychometric testing, some discussion of such modern developments as generalizability theory, Rasch scaling, measurement of bias, and more detail of the quantitative aspects of assessment in general would have been of value. Also most readers of this journal would probably like to see some discussion of behavioural assessment, and more space given to critical review of the standard tests described. Nevertheless Brown's book, like the previous editions thereof, is readable, well organised and eminently suitable for those who would like a relatively low-level introductory non-quantitative survey of traditional assessment and its problems.