...This Saturday academy helped me learn about my personality, social identity, and how to present my “story” in a personal essay. Based on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Test, it identified me as an ENFJ—extraverted feeling with introverted intuition. This identification interrupted me as an honest individual with excellent people skills and is well-organized. This personality type’s description was very accurate when describing my personality. For example, I have always had great people skills after working for my family’s business since I was four years old, where I had to communicate with customers daily. As a result, knowing my Myers Briggs type can help me understand my family, friends, colleagues, and especially myself. On the other...
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...Running head: 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...
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...Case Study Report for a Distant Client Lois Myers COUN5290 March 3, 2013 Dr. Rita Smith Case Study Report for a Distant Client This study will discuss a recent client who as accessed this firm in an online/technology based manner. This client will be receiving counseling through email/web based technology, and will not be attending face-to-face counseling sessions. Client History The client’s name is Alistair Tarling. His birth date is December 6, 1964. He currently lives in Rockford, IL. The client is a recently immigrated Brisith national, who is married to a US Citizen. His wife is a US Civil servant and is currently in a secure position at work. Alistair is seeking career counseling to help find a career that suits his identity and desires. He is seeking something to help people and remain unnoticed. He does not want to meet for face-to-face counseling currently and will be handling all communication through web-based technology. Alistair has been given the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Strong Interest Inventory. Assessment Results The results from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are as follows; 1) on the Extraversion to Introversion scale, Alistair scored a 26, putting him very clearly on the Introversion side; 2) on the Sensing to Intuition scale, Alistair scored a 15, putting him moderately on the Intuition side; 3) on the Thinking to Feeling scale, Alistair scored a 16, putting him clearly on the feeling side; 4) on the Judging to Perceiving...
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...My decision to pursue an MBA degree to further my career - Week-2 MGT / 521 September 7, 2010 My decision to pursue an MBA degree to further my career - Week-2 The slow down of the US economy has caused companies to start to down sizing, reducing their workforce by layoffs or closing down completely. The Information Technology is being hit twice as hard by not only the reduction of local positions due to the economy slow down but in addition, the lower cost of outsourcing (Computerworld Staff, Feb 22, 2010) . During a recent reduction in force evaluation by my current employer, I noticed that the employee’s education level was an assessed value, which added to the valuable points for retaining an employee. I decided that continuing my education would be a very important addition to resume, future reduction in force evaluations to maintain my current career or make me more valuable if I was out looking for a job. Originally, I was interested in starting a Master of Science in Management (MSM) (Thomas Edison State College, 2010) to further advancement in my current career in Information Technology (IT) and potentially get into a IT Management position the program is offered strictly on-line. I have also started noticing a pattern of companies “outsourcing” information technology jobs to other countries for cost savings to the US companies and noticed the continued strong increase of revenue for the Outsourced Cognizant Technology Solutions (Ribeiro, Augu) . I decided...
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...leadership development process (McCarthy & Garavan, 1999). The 360-degree feedback process, multisource assessments, and personality inventories are useful in the context of leadership development (Church & Bracken, 1997; McCarthy & Garavan, 1999). Selfassessment and personal reflection are valuable tools in achieving personal and professional 2 growth and success. The challenge, however, is that self-assessment is oftentimes a difficult task due to the subjectivity of personal perceptions of strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of this essay is to report out on the assessment of the leadership styles of individual team members and identify the most important areas for improvement. The essay commences with a discussion on the criteria used for the selection of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a self-awareness leadership instrument. The essay continues with an analysis of individual team member results from the Myers-Briggs and concludes with a set of recommendations by acknowledging that leadership styles vary among individuals and the personality of the individual plays an important role in developing his or her leadership style. Criteria for Instrument Selection Personality characteristics influence the effectiveness of individual...
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...Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to review and assess the teamwork and chemistry within the newly formed Team Equity. Specific objectives of the report are to overview data gained from the various psychometric indicator tests of each member and to analyse them for any possible interpersonal conflicts which may arise during team activities and offer strong recommendations to the Human Resources Officer to alleviate those conflicts. Conflicts were found relating to how the team would progress through the needed tasks which lead to the completion of the project, differences in acquiring and sharing information, professional conduct, personality differences and differences in mindsets. Recommendations are provided in the report which are presented in order to alleviate the problems and to better the work efficiency of Team Equity of Intelligent Financial Solutions Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd. Table of Contents Contents Executive Summary 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 1.1 Terms of Reference 3 1.2 Main Points 3 1.3 Personal Effectiveness 3 1.4 An overview to the Evaluation Tests 4 Psychometric Tests and Results 5 Discussion 10 Overall Analysis 12 Problems and Conflicts 13 Conclusion 14 Recommendation 15 Reference List 16 Appendix 1 17 Appendix 2 24 1. Introduction 1.1 Terms of Reference * As the Human Resource manager Mr. Ranjan Ferdinando of Intelligent Financial Solutions Consultants has requested to investigate...
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... Wonderful job, great success, outstanding job, or well done, are the phrases which any group would love to hear as the result of their project. In order to hear these phrases the group needs to work very hard starting from group formation, to group communication, group norms, roles, rubrics, and other skills and methods. Throughout this course, I had the chance to experience some wonderful group work. After completing our project, I looked back and was able to see that we had worked a lot in order to succeed in our goal. This class has thought me to be a responsible group member. In the following report I would like to talk about the topics which really pointed out to me, and which have helped me to look at group work differently. In the report I will be talk about group communication, the stages of group formation and what they include, the cultural diversities in groups, and the assessment rubric. Isa N. Engleberg and Dianna R. Wynn, authors of the book “Working in Groups”, define group communication as an “interaction of three or more interdependent members working to achieve a common goal.” From the beginning of the course, this sentence really stood out to me. The word interdependent plays a big role in a group project, and if the group is formed out of non-dependable members, then the group’s goal will most likely not be successful. Another term, which plays a huge role in the groups’ work toward...
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...The Myers-Briggs indicators (MBTI) is based on the work of Carl Jung and reports a people preferred way of attending to the world and making decision based on psychological. The aim of MBTI is to identify, from self-report of easily recognize reactions, the preference of people in regard to perception and judgment. Therefore the effects of every preference singly and in combination can be established by research and put to practical. It was developed in 1940s by Isable Briggs Myers and original research is done in 1940s and 50s. It indicates personality inventory to make a theory of psychological types prescribed by C.G Jung understandable and useful in our human life. MBTI has included perfect through continual test research and development...
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...Major Individual Essay During this time of exploration I have exposed experiences that have had a significant impact on how I see myself. One incident related to a less than one-minute interaction forty years ago. As I was thinking about my life story and self-development trajectory I recalled an interstate holiday to Queensland when I was 10 years old. My parents, avid antique collectors, were looking for a grandfather clock and made an enquiry to a shopkeeper if he had any clocks to sell. The shopkeeper responded to my father’s query and proceeded to say he did have a beautiful Victorian grandfather clock and said “oh it’s over there just near your son” and he was pointing at me….This event had a profound impact on how I have viewed myself and now forty years later a place to start for some great opportunities for improvement. As Eleanor Roosevelt said,“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. | Introduction I made a decision at the start of the semester to use the subject as a catalyst to create some changes in my professional life. I came into this subject with a plan to work out how to improve my working relationship with a colleague who I perceived as overbearing and a dictator. Over the past twelve weeks I have dissected not only this relationship but also my career, myself and my future. I am, to most, seen as a successful executive and leader. Based on the success symbols of our western society such as being goal oriented, having a clear...
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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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...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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...PERSONALITY TEST NAME: 16 PERSONALITY FACTOR QUESTIONNAIRE (16PF) GENERAL PURPOSE: The 16PF is a descriptive, as opposed to diagnostic, personality inventory that is designed to assess 16 "normal" personality traits. It is used in vocational settings to provide vocational and occupational comparisons which can then facilitate identification of occupational or career choices. TARGET GROUP: The established norm groups are high school students, college students, and adults. The 16PF, on the surface, appears to have been well criticized by the reviewers in the Burrough's Mental Measurement, but on closer examination suggests that it actually fares quite well for a personality assessment instrument. Its reliability coefficients range from .45 to .93 and has been correlated to numerous other personality instruments. TEST ADMINISTRATION: The test can be administered to groups or individuals, and requires anywhere from 35 to 60 minutes to complete, depending upon the form of the test being used. TESTING CONSIDERATION/ACCOMMODATIONS: There are 5 forms (A-E), with Forms A/B requiring a 7th-grade reading level, C/D a 5th-grade level, and Form E a 3rd grade reading level. The test can be read to poor readers or persons with sensory impairments but is most appropriate with career-minded individuals looking toward college training or individuals trying to make "tough" educational choices. It may also be useful for individuals who have a history of job-hopping. SCORING/INTERPRETATION: ...
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...Leadership Self-Assessment HA515: Leadership in Health Care February 7, 2015 For this assignment I had decided to take the Myers and Briggs personality test and the type A and B personality indicators test each of these test I took numerous times and basically got the same results. Both of these tests are made up of multiple questions on feelings to how you react in certain situations. Out of the two tests I like the Myers Briggs test better than the type A and B test I feel I got a better reading from the Myers-Briggs test. So my results in the Myers-Briggs test was INTJ and this was broken down into four categories. First introvert, second intuitive, third thinking and the fourth judging. I was pleasantly surprised. I scored a slight preference of introversion over extraversion by 22%. I had a distinct preference of intuition over sensing by 62%. I had a moderate preference of thinking over feeling by 50% and I had a moderate preference of judging over perceiving by 33% . And for my other test I scored a 5 out of 10 making me a type B personality. So now comes the fun part of breaking each part of the test down on what type of leader I am. The first scale in the Myers-Briggs test for me was introversion over extraversion by 22%. I do agree with this. I have always said I am more of introversion individual. His I have always enjoyed solitary activities growing up I was always reading any book I could get my hands on trying to broaden my mental capacity of...
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...Psychology I. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test, developed to make C.G. Jung’s personality type theory understandable and applicable to person’s everyday life. The MBTI is a psychometric instrument designed to sort people into groups of personality types. Jungian theory posits that there are different functions and attitudes of consciousness. Perception is the means by which one becomes aware of people, things, events, and concepts; judgment is the means of coming to conclusions about how to handle the information thus gathered (C.J. Jung’s Theory of Types, 2012). Applications have been made across a broad spectrum of human experience, including in areas such as counseling and psychotherapy; education, learning styles, and cognitive styles; career counseling; management and leadership in business organizations and the military services; and health-related issues. A. The MBTI has a unique and interesting history. Unlike most personality inventories, it was initially designed to facilitate research interests, and only later adapted for general use. 1. “The MBTI is a self-report questionnaire that assesses type preferences on Extraversion-Introversion (E-I), Sensation-Intuition (S-N), Thinking-Feeling (T-F), and also on Judgment-Perception (J-P)” (C.J. Jung’s Theory of Types, 2012). 2. “MBTI types are described using four letters indicating preferences on each scale. This results in sixteen types” (C.J. Jung’s Theory of Types, 2012). B. With administration...
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...1. INTRODUCTION Teams are a part of everyone's life. You're a member of a family team, an extension staff team, and church, school, and community teams. As a result, there is a need for teamwork; organizations are confronted with increasingly complex problems with many dimensions. For example, the energy problem has implications for extension programming in agriculture, family living, community development and youth development programs for both rural and urban people. (Dyer, 1997 p. 139) So it's appropriate that people try to understand how to function effectively as team members. 2. WHAT CONSTITUTES TEAM WORK? 2.1 Teamwork … Merriam Webster dictionary (2005) describes teamwork as work done by several associates with each doing a part but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole. Nevertheless greater interpersonal skills are necessary if teams work together effectively at more complex levels. (Belbin, 1981) 2.2 Characteristics needed for team work Douglas McGregor's (cited in Heil, 2000) list of the unique characteristics of an effective management team include 1)Understanding, mutual agreement, and identification with respect to the primary task 2)Open communications 3)Mutual trust 4)Mutual support 5)Management of human differences leading to group synergy 6)Selective use of the team 7)Appropriate member skills 8) Leadership: Managing and integrating the other 7 characteristics A team is only as strong as the individual members...
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