It's a few years old, but I had occasion to review it (241 page PDF) during the course of a work project and felt it should be passed along. These standards are concerned with establishing the validity and reliability of tests and surveys used in educational and psychological research. Validation of this sort is what distinguishes the off-the-cuff taxonomies we might find in blogs and popular media and the instruments designed for more formal research. Not that these measures are without grounds for criticism, but they represent the findings decades of psychometric research (like this) and cannot be dismissed lightly.
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