Psychological Assessment and Testing Laboratory (PAT-LAB)
The PAT-LAB provides a collection of more than 800 psychological assessment and testing tools to support research and teaching in psychology. The PAT-LAB is available for researchers to conduct assessments using the different psychological tools as well as a multitude of computerized tests available through the Vienna Test System. The PAT-LAB also provides students with an opportunity to get to know the tools used in psychological assessment and practice with them. The PAT-LAB comprises assessment tools on a variety of psychological domains such as learning disabilities, mood, anxiety and personality disorders, quality of life, sport, human resources, work environment, and traffic. The tools are suitable for children, adolescents, adults, and elderly people and are available in German, French, English, and Luxembourgish.
Aims
The collection of tests provided by the PAT-LAB is fundamental in the support of the research conducted by the other Epsylon labs at the University of Luxembourg as it provides researchers with the tools necessary to conduct their research.
It also supports the training of students in psychology at the bachelor and master levels. The assessment tools of the PAT-LAB are used in different courses to get students familiarized with the different types of psychological tools and they are used to introduce them to research methods.
Functions
The PAT-LAB provides its users with the possibility to consult the catalog of psychological tools in an online database, book the psychological tools needed, and then pick them up at the lab: https://psy-lab.librarika.com/
Users can also come to the lab and consult the psychological tools available on site.
For further testing, the PAT-LAB is also equipped with two functional rooms. One room is dedicated to testing and observation and is equipped with the Epiphan recording system that enable sessions to be recorded and observed in real time from an adjacent room. The other room is equipped with six laptops with an intelligent computerized assessment system, the Vienna Test System that enables the assessment of dozens of tests in a standardized way, in different languages, providing automatically results and reports. The system contains packages for neurological tests, traffic tests, and sports tests. The laptops can be used in the lab or borrowed for external testing.
