INTRODUCTION One of the many contributions made by Alan Kaufman to the field of psychology in the past 30 years, Intelligent Testing , became the gold standard for psychometric test interpretation and clinical assessment. It was an interpretive system developed by Kaufman (1979, 1994; Kaufman & Lichtenberger, 2004, 2006) during the revisions of the Wechsler scales (Wechsler, 1949, 1974, 1981) and introduced the notion that appropriate use of information gained from any IQ test used in a comprehensive assessment was guided by various clinical principles that incorporated both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The development of this system was probably a natural response on the part of Kaufman and many others to calm the controversy surrounding the measurement of intelligence in the latter part of the twentieth century. Metatheoretical principles for clinical assessment were needed in the 1970s because impassioned arguments against the misuse of IQ scores were frequent, and, sadly, evidence of misuse was replete (Berninger & O'Donnell, 2005; Fletcher & Reschly, 2005; Prifitera, Weiss, Saklosfse & Rolfus, 2005). The intelligent testing philosophy was essentially the first system of test interpretation that followed scientific principles and at the same time overtly sought to reduce inappropriate use of obtained test scores. Intelligent testing moved emphasis away from pure psychometric and reductionistic comparisons of test scores and demanded incorporation of a contextual analysis of the test subject and interventions that had ecological validity.
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