About
TestCentral, is the Romanian leading publisher of psychological assessment solutions. Psychological tests developed or adapted and published by our company are used today by over 9,000 psychologists in Romania, in private practice & organisational settings.
For more than 20 years, TestCentral has been providing solutions that not only help our customers offer better services, but also contribute to the trustful relationship our customers have with their own clients.
Through our selection of offerings, we locally promote science-based decision making and evidence-based practice mainly to psychologists, but also to other social sciences graduates. Psychological tests developed or adapted and published by our company are extensively used in clinical, corporate, educational, military, forensic and research settings. TestCentral is a consortium composed of D&D Consultants Grup and Giunti Psychometrics România, and proudly represents Romania in the Giunti Psychometrics International Group, the International Testing Commission (ITC) and the European Test Publishers Group (ETPG).
Dragoș ILIESCU
PhD, CEO
Dragoș Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest and head of the Doctoral School of the same institution.
He has been active as a consultant for the past 25 years, being involved in and having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), mainly in South-Eastern Europe, but also in South-East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America.
Dragoș Iliescu has served in various capacities for a number of national and international professional associations; he is currently President (2020-) of the Division 2 Psychological Assessment and Evaluation (IAAP) and Past-President (2016-2018) of the International Test Commission (ITC).
He is Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Psychological Assessment (EJPA), and the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books, among them the co-Editor of the acclaimed ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, and the author of an important monography (Adapting tests in linguistic and cultural situations) published with Cambridge University Press. His research interests group around two domains: (1) psychometrics: psychological and educational assessment, tests and testing (with an important cross-cultural component), and (2) applied psychology, especially work, industrial and organizational psychology (with focus on occupational health and wellbeing).
Camelia-Gabriela IONESCU
MA, Marketing Specialist
Camelia Ionescu has expertise in psychological assessment, consultancy and psychometric tests publishing.
She has been part of TestCentral since 2008 and is actively involved in their advertising and marketing strategies.
Camelia is a trained psychotherapist currently pursuing the Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) approach. She also leverages her creative writing skills to promote best practice in the local psychological assessment field.
Research-backed testing is part of her standard procedure which enables data-driven access to quantifiable results.
Her latest interests vary from 1) affective neuroscience, schema-therapy, attachment theory or polyvagal theory, to 2) the research contributions of the bi-directional interdisciplinary diad computer-science-psychology.
