...The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a series of “two-choice items concerning preferences or inclinations in feelings or behavior” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). This assessment is scored on four scales: “Introversion-Extroversion (I-E), Sensing-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F), and Judging-Perceptive (J-P)” (Aiken & Groth-Marnat, 2006, p. 401). With these four scales the MBTI assessment can come up with 16 possible personality types. The MBTI searches for “preferences and does not measure trait, ability, or character” (www.myersbriggs.org). Once the questions are answered and assessed the respondent is assigned to a personality type that most fits the answers that were given during the assessment. This test...
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...ASSESSMENT TOOLS 1 Assessment Tools Paper Liberty University EDUC 307 June 1, 2016 Abstract The beauty in teaching is watching the brains of your scholars grow with knowledge. As educators we frequently use various tools to assess the gains that our scholars make. In order to successfully instruct intentional lessons, it is important to collect data about scholar interests, ability/intellectual levels, achievement levels, and personality types. Through the use of assessment tools like the Common Core Measures of Academic Progress (Common Core MAP), The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), The Student Interest Survey for Career Clusters, The Brigance Early Childhood Screens III, The Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory, and The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Indicator. Interests 1. The Student Interest Survey for Career Clusters assesses scholars interest through the use of a survey where scholars are expected to circle up to seven activities in each of sixteen boxes that describe what they like to do. This is an extensive survey that asks the same three questions in each of the sixteen boxes, however the list of answer choices provided varies each time. This survey takes around fifteen minutes to complete via paper and pencil. This survey is available in both English and Spanish and can be viewed and printed online. The Student Interest...
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...LEARNING STYLES Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing, steadily and in fits and starts. Teaching methods also vary. Some instructors lecture, others demonstrate or lead students to self-discovery; some focus on principles and others on applications; some emphasize memory and others understanding. When mismatches exist between learning styles of most students in a class and the teaching style of the professor, the students may become bored and inattentive in class, do poorly on tests, get discouraged about the courses, the curriculum, and themselves, and in some cases change to other curricula or drop out of school. Professors, confronted by low test grades, unresponsive or hostile classes, poor attendance and dropouts, know something is not working. They may become overly critical of their students (making things even worse) or begin to wonder if they are in the right profession. Most seriously, society loses potentially excellent professionals. To overcome these problems, professors should strive for a balance of instructional methods (as opposed to trying to teach each student exclusively according to his or her preferences.) If the balance is achieved, all students will be taught partly in a manner they prefer, which leads to an increased comfort level and willingness to learn, and partly in a less preferred manner, which provides...
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...Life Styles Inventory™ & Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator®: A Comparison of Two Surveys We are often asked: “What is the difference between the Life Styles Inventory™ and the MyersBriggs Type Indicator®?” Whereas both of these surveys help individuals to better understand themselves and others, they differ in terms of what they measure, how they measure it, and how the results are used. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to highlight what we believe are some of the most important differences between these two popular instruments. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) measures twelve distinct thinking and behavioral styles that are distinguished by their orientations toward task versus people and higher-order needs for satisfaction and growth versus lower order needs for security and safety. The LSI builds on the work of a variety of noteworthy psychologists, including Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Karen Horney, Timothy Leary, David McClelland, Harry Stack Sullivan, as well as management scholars, such as Fredrick Hertzberg, Douglas McGregor, and Ralph Stodgill. It is designed to provide individuals with an opportunity to identify specific strengths in their thinking and behavior, as well as any “stumbling blocks” that may be standing in their way. As such, the LSI is used to initiate positive changes in how people approach their work and interact with others— changes that can increase both their personal and professional effectiveness. In contrast, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)...
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...Write a 3+ page, double-spaced essay regarding: Compare and contrast the Big Five Theory of Personality with Myers Briggs MBTI Why is it important to understand personality types What other personality assessments may be important (example: DISC)? Should companies base their hiring practices on personality assessments? Why or why not? Write in APA format. Include an introduction, body and conclusion. Cite consistently throughout your work in APA format. Paraphrase rather than directly quote citations. Write in third person. Include a title and reference page. For an example of a paper in APA format, please see: Personality Profiling Name Institution Course Date Personality Profiling The two personality profiling techniques or approaches, the Big Five and the Myers Briggs MBTI have several similarities and differences. The Big Five taxonomy was created with a major role to cover as many personality aspects as was possible. As the name suggests, big five has five different character traits desired in a successful individual. It is less focused on the mental values and beliefs. Instead, it is concerned about the physical behavior of an individual. Briggs MBTI on the other hand is a theory that was coined to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the personality types. It measures the personality of an individual based on the attitudes that they portray towards their surroundings. The theories can be used...
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...Assessment Tools Paper Liberty University Online Abstract The paper covers six different assessment tools used to determine children’s learning profiles. This includes his or her interests, ability/intellectual level, achievement level, and personality type. Findings contain the Strong Interest Inventory, the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS), the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5), the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the End-of-Course-Tests (EOCT), and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Each section will answer key questions and give a short description of the given assessment tool. The goal of the paper is to understand the assessment tools available to discover the differences in students so that a teacher can adapt instruction to their needs. I. Interests A. Strong Interest Inventory The Strong Interest Inventory’s theoretical framework was developed in 1974 by John Holland. This theory is represented by a hexagon with the six themes that characterize most people. The order of the themes is called the R-I-A-S-E-C order and those most closely related are adjacent and those most dissimilar are across from each other. The Strong Interest Inventory assesses which theme or combination of themes characterizes an individual. The inventory contains 291 items that cover occupation, subject area, activities...
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...Introduction Purpose: The purpose of this paper is the understanding of the own Myers-Briggs Personality Type. The paper stimulates you to think about the key traits of your type and in this way you learn more about yourself. Furthermore you have the chance to make a plan about character traits you might want to change. Approach: At first I completed the Myers-Briggs Personality Type. The result was that I am an extraverted, sensing, feeling and perceiving person. Next I researched my type and its key traits. At least I answered the given questions . Self-analysis Response The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator shows that I am a very outgoing person. One of my passions is travelling because I can meet new people and make a lot of new experiences. I have a wide circle of friends and feel comfortable in groups. The Sensing side of me shows that experience speaks to me louder than words. I am a very practical person. That means I have to do something on my own to understand what I’m learning. In addition I am a friendly and compassionate person. I always try to help people and establish harmony. Injustice is something I always try to avoid. The most decisions in life I make with my heart and not with my head. That means I often don’t do what seems right but what feels right. The biggest success for my team might by my feeling side. I am a very good listener and try to maintain harmony in the group. If necessary I mediate between people and resolve the...
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...Accuracy of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test Everyone has different personalities, and their individual personality determines their decisions and actions. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung was a pioneer of the study of personalities. After reading Jung’s theory of personality, Katherine Briggs used it as a foundation for a personality type indicator for practical use. Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs-Myers, determined that there were four different personality preference scales, each with two extremes, and from this 16 different personality types. From here, Briggs and Briggs-Myers developed a test that would determine each individual’s personality type. This test is called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which is quite detailed and has been refined over the years through scientific research to help validate the results. Throughout the remainder of this paper I will provide an overview of the different MBTI types, and I will try to determine the tests dependability by comparing the results of my test to my own insight of my personality. There are four different scales of personality types. The test helps determine your preference on each of these scales. The first scale, which measures how we interact with the world, is the scale between extraversion (E) and introversion (I). Extraverts draw their energy and focus from the outside world whereas introverts draw their energy from within themselves. The second scale, how we process information, is the scale between sensing...
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...meeting of my team and my thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Thirdly, this essay with draw upon Tuckman’s team formulation theory to assist in the evaluation of a team meeting held on 16th August, 2009. Fourthly, this essay will also refer to the Myers-Briggs personality profile questionnaire to assist in analysing how different personalities impact on the effective formulation of team roles and responsibilities. The analysis of this critical incident will be referenced to the Kolb model that consists of concrete experience, reflective observations, abstract conceptualisation and active experimentation. On 30th September 2009, I had a significant experience where I took part in a communications exercise facilitated by my quite engaging KOLB tutor. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the differences between one-way and two-way communication. Students were split into pairs where one student would sit behind the other. The student in front was given a blank A4 piece of paper and a pen. The student sitting behind them was given an A4 piece of paper with a series of shapes printed on it. The object was for the student sitting behind to tell the student sitting in front how to replicate the shapes onto their blank A4 piece of paper. The only rule was that the student listening to the instructions was not aloud to speak or engage in any communication with the student behind them. On the completion of that exercise, the students swapped positions and proceeded to do the exercise...
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...experiencing the stimuli before the message is committed to memory. This makes learning effective. Thesis statement. Most people are unaware of the importance of cognitive processes in their lives. Cognitive processes are important because they influence human behavior. When one is aware of his or her preferred approach, he or she is able to discern how his preference influences his personality. The aim of this paper is to look at three types of cognitive processes, their purposes and the methodology used in them. When a child is born the process of learning starts to take place. It has to learn how to crawl, stand, and walk and later on run. At puberty children learn various topics depending on the individual interests. However, before a man can apply what he has learnt he has to undergo a cognitive process. Carl Jung a Swiss psychiatrist came up with eight cognitive processes Introverted Intuiting, Introverted sensing, Extroverted Sensing, Extroverted Intuiting, Extroverted Thinking, Introverted Thinking, Extroverted Feeling, and Introverted Feeling types. In this paper, I will be discussing Extroverted sensing, Introverted Sensing and Introverted Intuiting. During his studies Jung notices that his view points and those of his colleagues Alfred Alfer and Sigmund Freud focused on different worlds (Berens, 2000). He noticed that Freud focused on adjustment to the outside world while Alfred focused on adjusting to...
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...My first think piece paper for this class is about my personality type and it is quite interesting. I have never taken this personality test before and I’m not sure if this is the same test that the military uses to determine the type of personality that we are as service members. My personality test revealed that I’m INTJ (introversion, intuition, thinking, and judgment). INTJs are one of the rarest of the sixteen psychological types and account for approximately 1-2% of the population. The MBTI assessment was developed from the work of prominent psychiatrist Carl G. Jung in his book Psychological Types. Jung proposed a psychological typology based on the theories of cognitive functions that he developed through his clinical observations. From Jung's work, others developed psychological typologies. Jungian personality assessments include the MBTI instrument, developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs, and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, developed by David Keirsey. Keirsey referred to INTJs as Masterminds one of the four types belonging to the temperament he called the Rationals. Even though Mr. Keirsey has considered my personality type as that of a mastermind, I’m sure that my superiors and peers would laugh at the thought of such a thing. I am comfortable working alone and tend to be less sociable than other people. I’ve been in the U.S. Navy for 23 years and I’m in a senior leadership position. I don’t always lead, as part of training junior personnel...
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...Running head: Myers-Briggs and SVIB Tests Myers-Briggs and SVIB Tests Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date Abstract Myers-Briggs and SVIB Tests are personality test carried on people. These tests are important because they help to gauge the people personality. This paper will analyze this tests and whether they are applicable to a college student taking a business course. Myers-Briggs personality test This is a type of test that help people to know their personality or the reason they behave in a particular way. This test will help people to know why they behave in a certain way and can also improve the relationship with others. MBIT uses four indicators namely Introversion /Extraversion, Thinking/Feeling, Intuition/Sensing, and Judging/Perceiving. Introversion or Extraversion I posses introversion characteristics which include: thinking before acting, always internally motivated by something and loves direct communication others. Thinking before acting helps me to avoid regretting the result achieved. This helps me to avoid collision with others or doing something that might have high regrets in future. This helps me make informed decisions which are based on facts not mere assumptions. In future while working: it will help me in achieving the best result in all my duties. I also prefer one on one communication...
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...Running head: AUDIENCE ANALYSIS PAPER Audience Analysis Paper When presenting a meeting such as quarterly sales one must take into consideration the type of audience he or she is presenting the meeting to. One must reflect on the diversity of the group in order to present a well deliberated quarterly sales meeting. The diversity of the audience will help the presenter decided on the proper communication which is appropriate for the tone of the quarterly sales meeting. The presenter must also take into consideration the effectiveness of the message that he or she is trying to state. Managers, sales people, and customers all play an important part of the quarterly sales meeting, each person representing a different audience. Presenting to a multiple audience may seem impossible, but can be done. One must analysis his or her audience when presenting his or her meeting. After analyzing the audience one must take into consideration the types of audience he or she may represent. An audience can contain a gatekeeper, primary audience, secondary audience, auxiliary audience, and a watchdog audience. In the case of the quarterly sales meeting the Managers would be the primary audience. The manager will be the audience that will act on the basis of your message. The sales people will be considered a secondary audience. The secondary audience will ask to comment on the message after it has been approved. The customers would be the type of audience known as the watchdogs since he or...
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...THE EFFECTS OF PERSONALITY TYPE ON ENGINEERING STUDENT PERFORMANCE AND ATTITUDES* R.M. Felder Department of Chemical Engineering North Carolina State University G.N. Felder Department of Physics Stanford University E.J. Dietz Department of Statistics North Carolina State University Abstract The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) was administered to a group of 116 students taking the introductory chemical engineering course at North Carolina State University. That course and four subsequent chemical engineering courses were taught in a manner that emphasized active and cooperative learning and inductive presentation of course material. Type differences in various academic performance measures and attitudes were noted as the students progressed through the curriculum. The observations were generally consistent with the predictions of type theory, and the experimental instructional approach appeared to improve the performance of MBTI types (extraverts, sensors, and feelers) found in previous studies to be disadvantaged in the engineering curriculum. The conclusion is that the MBTI is a useful tool for helping engineering instructors and advisors to understand their students and to design instruction that can benefit students of all types. I. INTRODUCTION People have different learning styles that are reflected in different academic strengths, weaknesses, skills, and interests. Given the almost unlimited variety of job descriptions within engineering, it is safe to say that students...
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...Organizational Communication 235 Paper #1 9 February 2012 Differences in personalities are where almost everyone around the world can make it or break it while trying to communicate with one another. The reason behind this is simply because of needs, backgrounds, personal preferences, values and beliefs for every unique individual. Many Americans feel that if someone has a difference in viewpoints than themselves then they are wrong or immoral in their thinking and in their actions. What most don’t think about are the underlying reasons behind these decisions and thoughts that are the reinforcing drive behind every action and reaction. The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator is based on Carl Jung’s theory that what seems to be random in the behaviors of humans is really very orderly and consistent, due to certain basic difference in the way people approach life (Carlyn). Jung organized people based on their personality, archetypes, and collective unconscious and grouped them based on their attitude types (extraverted and introverted) and the functions of the mind which are thinking, feeling, sensing and intuition. These four scales: extroversion-introversion (E-I), sensation-intuition (S-I), thinking-feeling (T-F), and judgment-perception (J-P) are what make up the 16 possible personality types which goes into the design of this paper and its break down of the two (opposite) personality types—ESTJ & INFP. In this paper I will discuss the different preferences both of these...
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