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Archive for October, 2009
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
For psychometric assessments to have utility and be effective when assessing people for various purposes, the assessment has to be reliable and valid for the situation.
All personality tests are not 100% accurate and measurement errors from a variety of sources can affect the results. The length (i.e. the number of items) of the assessment affects the reliabilty of the assessment and research has demonstrated that measurement errors are smaller in longer assessments than in shorter assessments. In addition, a larger number of items better represents the abstract characteristics that are being assessed. For example, when assessing personality, one cannot expect to obtain an accurate picture of an individual through a few questions, therefore more items are needed. It has to be noted that after a limit, increasing the number of items will not provide further increases to reliability as other factors such as fatigue will set in.
It is for this reason that good personality assessments will have a large number of items and therefore require some time for the candidates to complete the assessment (usually between 200-250 questions, taking around 30-40 minutes). Psychometric assessments that are shorter will tend to be less reliable and valid. With a large number of items, the reliability of the test will be better and in turn the validity of the assessment will be better too. Validity is all about predicting performance. So with high validity human resource professionals get a higher return on their investment.
Tags: choosing psychometric tests, hong kong psychometric tests, Personality Tests, psychometric assessment blog, psychometric personality tests, psychometric research, psychometric tests and error, singapore psychometric tests, standard error measurement
Posted in Competence in Psychometric Testing, Personality Tests, Psychometric Tests, Reliability of Psychometric Tests, Validity of Psychometric Tests | Comments Off
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
PsyAsia International is pleased to advise that we have published the dates for our final series of webinars in 2009. Webinars are free and open to all non-competitors involved in Human Resource Management, Coaching and/or related fields. These following provides information on the webinars:
4 November: Saville Consulting Wave
You will see an overview of the Wave alongside research that shows the Wave beats other tests on the market in predicting performance at work and leadership. You will also have an opportunity to trial the Wave.
• Overview of the Saville Consulting Wave
• Aptitude Assessments and Personality Assessments
• Brief overview of the various assessments
• Scales of the Saville Consulting Wave
• Features of the Saville Consulting Wave
• Benefits of the Saville Consulting Wave
• Saville Consulting Wave Accreditation (Conversion and Full Module)
• Comparison with other personality assessments
-To register, please click here.
-Then choose “Show all meetings” and click register next to your preferred webinar
-Complete and submit the short registration form
-We will review your registration and send you a link to attend the webinar within a few days
-Kindly note that we take a maximum of 25 attendees at the webinar, so early registration is advised
10 December: Identity Self Perception Questionnaire
Attendees will be introduced to this personality assessment which produces the most comprehensive assessment of personality on the market. You will also have an opportunity to trial Identity.
• Overview of the Identity Self Perception Questionnaire
• Scales of the Identity Self Perception Questionnaire
• Range of Application for the Identity Self Perception Questionnaire
• Advantages of the Identity Self Perception Questionnaire
• Identity Self Perception Questionnaire Accreditation Course
• Relative Comparison with other Questionnaires
-To register, please click here.
-Then choose “Show all meetings” and click register next to your preferred webinar
-Complete and submit the short registration form
-We will review your registration and send you a link to attend the webinar within a few days
-Kindly note that we take a maximum of 25 attendees at the webinar, so early registration is advised
Webinars run during the China, Singapore, Hong Kong lunch hour – that is, 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
Tags: identity personality test webinar, psychometric assessment, psychometric news, Psychometric Test Webinars, saville wave webinar
Posted in Personality Tests, Psychometric Test Training, Psychometric Test Webinars | Comments Off
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
PsyAsia International is pleased to announce a special offer from Saville Consulting. For clients interested in attending our Saville Consulting Wave® Training in Singapore or Hong Kong and who are able to send 2 or more delegates from their organisation, Saville Consulting Asia Pacific are offering a complimentary Saville Oasys Online Psychometric Assessment System.
Oasys is a cutting-edge management system for the administration, scoring, reporting and interpretation of the world’s most revolutionary psychometric assessments. These include the Saville Consulting Wave®, the Saville Consulting Wave Focus, the newly released and revolutionary Saville Personality Profile, a full range of modern and innovative aptitude tests*, a job profiler for use prior to selection and a 360 performance appraisal. Use of the Oasys system cuts down on the costs of psychometric testing in organisations as clients have full control over their candidates and pay a system fee per report rather than paying us a higher bureau service fee. Oasys usually sells for SG$6000 or HK$30,000 so this is a very special offer. It is limited and will expire after the following training course dates and the system will then sell at the regular fee.
To avail of the offer, please register at least 2 people from the same organisation for one of the following courses at http://www.psyasia.com/register
SINGAPORE COURSES
Wave Conversion: 25 November 2009
(for those who already hold a qualification in a substantive personality test or BPS Level B)
Wave Full Training: 25-26 November 2009
(for those without a qualification in a substantive personality test)*
HONG KONG COURSES
Wave Conversion: 1 December 2009
(for those who already hold a qualification in a substantive personality test or BPS Level B)
Wave Full Training: 1-2 December 2009
(for those without a qualification in a substantive personality test)*
IN HOUSE COURSES
PsyAsia International is also accredited to run in-house courses for the Saville Wave. The same offer will apply. By engaging PsyAsia to run an in-house course for you before December 2009, we will be able to supply one Saville Oasys System on a complimentary basis. Please contact us for further details on our in-house training for Saville Wave.
More details on the courses
More details on Saville Consulting Wave
*for those without training to BPS Level A or an equivalent, the aptitude tests will be disabled in the system until such time as the client undergoes such training. PsyAsia offers BPS Level A Certification Training in Singapore and Hong Kong.
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
PsyAsia International, Asia’s leading independent provider of psychometric assessment products and training today announced a free psychometric test training workshop in three prime Asian locations in December. The workshops will cover the basics in psychometric assessment, such as reliability, validity and error, along with pointers and discussion on how to choose the right psychometric test. Courses will be facilitated by PsyAsia’s organisational psychologists who have at least an MSc in Organisational Psychology along with the British Psychological Society Level A and B Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing. PsyAsia’s psychometric training courses in Asia have been the subject of many years of positive reviews (many published at the website). This course will bring best practice and an introduction to competence to those who would otherwise not realise the issues involved in testing due to the costs of regular training courses.
PsyAsia will charge registrants a small fee to reflect the company’s costs in running the training session. The fee is just US$70 (SG$99/HK$550). This covers a full buffet lunch in a top hotel along with day-long refreshments, handouts and a certificate of attendance. However, PsyAsia will even refund this fee back to any participant who registers for one of the company’s psychometric accreditation courses within 6 months!
The dates are:
Hong Kong: 3 December 2009
Kuala Lumpur: 8 December 2009
Singapore: 9 December 2009
More information
Online Registration
Tags: choosing psychometric tests, psychometric assessment singapore, psychometric course hong kong, psychometric course singapore, psychometric news, psychometric test training hong kong, psychometric test training malaysia, psychometric test training singapore
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
Personality assessment can be divided into two categories, type and trait based personality assessments. Across both types of personality assessments, it is assumed that personality remains stable over time, involves a genetic basis and influences individuals to demonstrate similar behavior in most situations.
Trait based personality assessments assess various aspects of an individual’s personality which contributes to them behaving in particular ways. Across the population, different people’s aspects of their personality will tend to vary and this explains the wide variety of personality descriptions. Such assessments have tended to be developed to fulfill a certain need to explain personality in various contexts such as work. Although these assessments may be more difficult for people to understand and can be difficult to use in team building activities, they are more psychometrically sound and allow for more accurate comparisons between individuals. These assessments can be used in conjunction with other methods in activities that require differentiation between individuals such as in recruitment and selection.
Type based personality assessments assess an individual’s personality by categorizing them in particularly distinct theory-driven types. One way to understand this is that these types are collections of particular personality traits that influence them to behave in particular ways in certain situations. A number of personality theories have proposed classifications of certain personality types that explain a wide range of human behavior. These assessments are attractive as they are easy to understand and possesses utility in team building activities, but they are less psychometrically sound and have the tendency to “pigeon-hole” individuals into particular types. This results in less accurate comparisons between individuals. As such, they should not be used in activities that require accurate differentiation between individuals. Nevertheless, these assessments are particularly useful in team building activities.
Tags: personality assessment, personality questionnaire, Personality Tests, personality trait, personality type, psychometric personality tests
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