Our Mission
We offer mental-health professionals in India premium quality psychological and educational assessment tools that will promote learning, positive mental health and well-being within the diverse Indian communities. We make accessible at affordable costs, and with ease of purchase, international-standard assessment tools used in multiple settings of schools, hospitals and educational institutions. We facilitate avenues for exchange of ideas within and among the community of educators, mental health professionals and policy-makers who will drive higher standards of assessment and mental health services in India in the future.
Who We Are
Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services, helping people of all ages and cultures to learn better. Pearson Clinical and Talent Assessment is a part of the Assessment group of Pearson, formerly known as Harcourt Assessment that has a long history related to some of the most respected names in publishing. Pearson Assessment is a global test publisher and leader in assessment tool development.
Our History
Our history dates back to 1912 when James McKeen Cattell, Ph.D., established the Psychological Corporation in New York City. Dr. Cattell was a former president of the American Psychological Association, the first psychologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and founder and editor of the Scientific Monthly.
Together with Robert Sessions Woodworth and Edward Lee Thorndike, two of Dr. Cattell's former graduate students, he started a business to market psychological tests and related materials to educational, corporate and government clients. Both Woodworth and Thorndike were eminent psychologists and Thorndike was regarded as the foremost authority on the analysis and measurement of learning.
Dr. Cattell's plans to create a holding company and referral service for psychologists were a success. He was able to recruit almost half of the 400 members of the American Psychological Association at that time, for his corporation. He gave shares of stock to psychologists who worked for his corporation, in exchange for their willingness to administer intelligence tests and promote applied psychology through research activities. Offices for his corporation were opened in New York with plans for expanding throughout the United States of America and abroad.
Dr. Cattell served as president of The Psychological Corporation until late 1926, when he was named Chairman of the Board and replaced as president by Walter Van Dyke Bingham, a psychologist with more than 10 years of experience in industrial psychology.
The Wechsler Series
In 1939, the company published the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scales. David Wechsler was a former student of Woodworth at Columbia University. He first developed the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) in 1939 which was then called the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test. From this, he derived the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) in 1949 and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) in 1967. The company's Wechsler intelligence tests continue to be industry leaders today.
Mergers and Acquisitions
In 1970, the Psychological Corporation was purchased by Harcourt Brace & World (later known as Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Harcourt Brace & World was formed from the merger of two other growing textbook and educational test publishing companies, Harcourt Brace & Company and World Book Company in 1960. Harcourt Brace & World merged the HB&W test educational testing division into the newly acquired Psychological Corporation.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, The Psychological Corporation expanded through a series of acquisitions. It acquired the Merrill Publishing Company Test Division (1986), Cognitronics Corporation (1993), Communication Skill Builders/Therapy Skill Builders (1994), and Assessment Systems, Inc. (1995).
The Psychological Corporation was the clinical division of Harcourt Assessment, which also had an education division called Harcourt Educational Measurement.
In 2003, the above two divisions were united into one operating company. The company name was officially changed to Harcourt Assessment, Inc. However, Harcourt Assessment retained "PsychCorp" as a brand imprint for select products.
Acquisition by Pearson
In January 2008, Pearson announced the acquisition of Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier, the global publishing company that acquired Harcourt Assessment, Inc. in 2001. The acquisition consolidates Pearson's position as the world's leading education company by expanding its international reach and its ability to offer complementary products and new capabilities. The world renowned Psychcorp brand of products continues to serve specialized professionals today.
Pearson's other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and Penguin Group.
Pearson in India
Pearson Education entered the field of educational publishing in India by offering customized educational programmes to meet the needs of schools and universities in India. Pearson's publications in the field of business, technology, science, law and humanities have facilitated the learning needs of students, offered solutions to teachers and helped professionals in their career development.
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Clinical and Talent Assessment
In 2008, Pearson Assessment set up its Clinical and Talent Assessment office in Bangalore, India, recognizing the need to make its assessment tools more accessible to the growing number of professionals in such fields as Education, Psychology, and Human Resources, who are aware of the need for procuring high-quality assessment tools in their areas of practice.
The India office was set up to support the needs of customers by directly distributing products from our overseas office. Along with the facility to distribute products from overseas, the office has plans to develop adapted versions of selected products that are standardized on the Indian population.
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Registered Office :
NCS Pearson India Pvt Ltd,
4th Floor,
18, Ramnath House,
Yousuf Sarai,
New Delhi 110 016
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