ETPG Conferences

Please see a summary of this conference on a blog post here

37 delegates and speakers attended our 28th conference, hosted by Dragos Iliescu and his team in Bucharest Romania, over 7th and 8th June 2018

We welcomed Motibo to their first ETPG meeting and during this meeting Eligo, who were in attendance, were voted on as a full member.

Dragos proposed a number of ways we could work more closely with other organisations to improve European tests and testing. These initiatives included:

• Being involved as a reviewer on the working party for the revision of the ITC guidelines on computer -based assessment. They’re working with ATP on a revision. There’s a formal invitation for ETPG to be involved. The first on-line meeting is in 1-2 weeks. Will involve 2-3 people for 2-4 hours a month.

• Becoming a Class C liaison for the revision of ISO 10667: The original version has not been a success.

• Joining the EFPA Board of Assessment as an observer. The board’s agenda includes issues such as a meta-code of ethics, EUROPSY and the EFPA Test Review structure and method; these are all areas we are interested in.

We agreed to try to create stronger communication with EFPA, ITC and ISO.

External speakers for the conference included:

• Andre Miu: The impact of Neuroscience on psychological testing – Hype or hope?

• Andre Ostacie: Technology opportunities that can help drive the psychometrics industry forward.

• Ioan Dumitraşcu: GDPR-Practical Issues.

We also discussed a number of group initiatives issues, designed to widen our membership, speed up decision making processes and ensure we are outward-looking.

Our May 2017 Conference was hosted in Vienna by Gerald Schuhfried and his team at Schuhfried GmbH

We welcomed PSI to their first ETPG Conference and also John Hackston as representative of Oxford Psychologists Press.

A key theme of ETPG has been to expose members to  changes in our discipline and industry while ensuring that we also reflect enduring professional, scientific and technical standards. This theme runs through the external speakers’ subjects. It also informs our periodic discussions of how ETPG is set up   Part of this meeting focused on whether ETPG is still fit for purpose, given the huge number of changes affecting our members. We wanted to ensure that we can implement changes and decisions more quickly than in the past.

We invited Professor Dr. Louis Norman-Audenhove and MMag. Michael Brandstetter from the Austrian Insurance Association to brief us on how another industry interest group serves its members.

We voted for a number of changes – an informal management team to speed up decision-making between conferences – but  decided against major structural changes which would alter the basic collegial atmosphere of the group.

Other presentations included one on initial versions of the films now included on this web site

Dr Veronika Kretmayr introduced us to new developments in sports psychology. Dr Kretmayr made a number of important points:

• Sports psychology has influenced I/O psychology and continues to do so.
• People working in sports psychology are not necessarily psychologists
• it has therapeutic and neuropsychological aspects
• most people working in the area are self-employed consultants
• universities, centres of excellence and academies are the best routes to market here. Large sporting clubs, with some exceptions, tend to hire individual consultants who ‘bring tests with them.’
• there is a real opportunity to create tests contextualized to specific sports.
• decision-making, personality, state-trait, arousal, stress, neuropsychological tests are possible areas for further development.
• a growing need for objective data and online testing

Our members Aleksandra Jaworowska and Sara Corral also presented issues involved in Classification and qualifications required for test supply.

Our June 2016 Conference was hosted by Pracownia Testow Pschologicznych    Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego Sp. z.o.o. in Krakow, Poland.

We welcomed our newest member – cut-e – to this conference.

Sessions included  Professor Barbara Czarniawska on Leadership in Professional Organizations. Konrad updated us on latest developments in copyright law – including issues such as unfair competition, industrial property right, and the civil code as well as international and particular Polish issues.

Patryk Góralowski – a hugely experienced trainer who has worked with brands as prestigious as Microsoft, Insys and Saatchi & Saatchi – ran a workshop on latest brand thinking.

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