Since it’s founding in 1921 the company that is today Harcourt Assessment has long played a major role in the history of psychological assessment. Visionaries like Edward Lee Thorndike and David Wechsler aligned themselves to the company which was then called The Psychological Corporation.

As the years passed, the company grew exponentially, adding new assessments and new capabilities, including individually administered psychological assessments and group administered educational measurements.

In 1980, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich acquired The Psychological Corporation. Though the name of company was to change in the decades that followed, the quality focus of The Psychological Corporation, or PsychCorp, did not waver.

In 1999, the company adopted the brand name Harcourt Assessment. At the time, Harcourt Assessment comprised PsychCorp, which by that time, had added to its blue-chip of clinical assessments, a wide range of solutions for occupation therapists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists and post-secondary assessment, and Harcourt Educational Measurement, which was known as the education division.

In late 2003, the testing business legally changed its name to Harcourt Assessment, Inc., and unified its two industry-leading divisions – Harcourt for education products and PsychCorp for psychological assessments – into one operating company with one single vision – to continue its long history as the leader in innovative and effective assessment solutions.