PTS Assessments

Children's Organisational Skills Scales (COSS)

The COSS is designed to help the assessor understand how children organise their time, their materials, and their actions to accomplish important tasks at home and at school. The COSS quantifies organizational skills for children aged 8 to 13 based on ratings from parents, teachers, and the child... more

Jesness Inventory - Revised (JI-R)

The Jesness Inventory–Revised (JI–R) is a comprehensive, self-report measure of personality and psychopathology that is applicable to children and adolescents with more severe behavioral problems, and with whom violence potential is a concern. Conventional scores are provided for the... more

Modified Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (M-WCST)

The M-WCST is a modification of the original Wisconsin Card Sorting Test that eliminates all cards from the original 128-card deck that share more than one attribute with a stimulus card. The resulting 48-card deck is used along with four stimulus cards to assess perseveration and abstract... more

Why do I need to register?

It is a requirement of both international test publishers and NZCER that test users be registered. NZCER will only supply psychological tests to those individuals who are registered with us, and have the necessary qualifications and experience to use and interpret these tests in an... more

Emotional Intelligence

Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)

With its revised Professional Manual, Profile Form Adults–Revised, and Critical Items Form–Revised, the PAI® continues to raise the standard for the assessment of adult psychopathology. This objective inventory of adult personality assesses psychopathological syndromes and... more

Personality Assessment Inventory - Software Portfolio (PAI-SP)

The PAI-SP is a powerful diagnostic and interpretive system. The design of this system offers a variety of modules to meet your specific assessment needs. The PAI-SP provides a common framework of basic functionality and features to all enabled PAI modules. This functionality includes navigation... more

Dyslexia Guidance

A comprehensive guide that offers advice on supporting dyslexic students both in the classroom and through intervention from specialist practitioners. Dyslexia Guidance is an invaluable resource; ideal for use after the Dyslexia Screener and Dyslexia Portfolio in... more

Dyslexia Portfolio

A battery of short, diagnostic tests that help identify areas of difficulty in literacy learning. The Dyslexia Portfolio is an ideal follow-up assessment for those pupils whose performance in literacy is causing concern. The individual diagnostic assessment provides a profile of strengths and... more

ASEBA - Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

The ASEBA is a comprehensive evidence-based assessment system developed through decades of research and practical experience. The ASEBA assesses competencies, adaptive functioning, personal strengths, and behavioral, emotional, social, and thought problems from age 1½ to 90+ years. ASEBA... more

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