Psychology: Psychometric Report
Psychology: Psychometric Report
INTRODUCTION TO THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROFILE (Psychology: Psychometric Report)
PSY4046
Dr Jackie Meredith
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Assessment 1: Planning for your future
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Gotlieb, A. I. (2015). Planning a Career in Biomedical and Life Sciences: Making
informed choices. Oxford: Elsevier
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CONTENT OF ALL THE SECTIONS OF THIS
REPORT WILL BE EXPLAINED WEEKLY
DURING THE SESSIONS
YOU ARE EXPECTED TO WORK ON THIS
ASSESSMENT ON A WEEK BY WEEK BASIS
AS COVERED IN THE SESSIONS
THIS IS A GUIDE TO THE CONTENTE OF
THE ASSESSMENT – A PSYCHOMETRIC
PROFILE OF A CLIENT FOR THE
PURPOSES OF CAREER COUNSELLING
PSYCHOMETRIC Report
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USE TEMPLATE ON Moodle
INTRODUCTION Personality
EIQ
PSYCHOMETRIC METHODS and CLIENT RESULTS Both tests
PSYCHOMETRIC PROFILE Separate for each test
APPLIED FOCUS
PSYCHOMETRICS IN BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY
References
Cover Page (Psychology: Psychometric Report)
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The template has a COVER PAGE which must be filled in.
You must give your STUDENT NUMBER
Please read the declaration before submitting through
TURNITIN
Cover
WRITING STYLE
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INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY and RESULTS
This part of the report is to be written in the 3rd Person, passive voice.
You are writing for the client, who is an intelligent but only moderately informed
individual – i.e. they do not have a firm concept what the trait approach to personality
or EQ are.
Don’t make this too difficult for the client to follow, but keep a professional flavour.
PROFILE
This is in the form of a Psychometric client report, written by a consultant. It is
therefore in the FIRST PERSON, but as the consultant reporting on his or her client’s
test results.
APPLIED FOCUS
This is part of the client report, but try to keep it passive voice.
PERSONAL COMMENT
This is in the FIRST PERSON.
Critical Evaluation of the process of psychometric testing (as experienced by you as
researcher and client)
References
Don’t forget these (or give citations in the report)
General Points
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The report should be in SINGLE LINE SPACING and a standard font, in
sentence form and preferably justified.
Each section in each report must have a main heading – e.g.
INTRODUCTION and subheadings.
Use the report template or include each section as on the template. You must RETAIN
headings and subheadings, which appear in BOLD CAPITALS
Guidelines for what to write will appear in italics and brackets (). These
instructions must be deleted before submission. They are for your
guidance only.
Word counts suggested here are MINIMUM guides – not maximum.
Also remember that word counts do not include citations, information in
tables, figures, references or appendices.
Example
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(100 words)
(Here you should explain issues relating to psychometric testing, as presented in the lecture and workshops)
Selection of Tests and Administrative Issues
(Explain here issues of reliability and validity; for example the importance of using a standardised process)
Norm Groups (Psychology: Psychometric Report)
(Explain here the use of norms and why they are necessary if personality is to be interpreted)
Heading – must keep
Sub-Heading – must keep
Instructions – delete before submission
Guideline – delete before submission
INTRODUCTION
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This section should be at least 800 words. Personality – Brief introduction as to how psychometrics contributes to the understanding of personality. Must explain the assumptions of trait theory and how this is relevant to the workplace and job selection.
Emotional Intelligence – What is EIQ, give a definition in the form of a citation. Explain how emotional intelligence relates to personality and why it is considered important in business psychology.
Description of tests to be used – What is the IPIP (who wrote it, why using, what type of test), what is the WECQ – ditto – (including author citations).
PSYCHOMETRIC METHODOLOGY
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This section presents issues relating to the psychometric process
This section should be at least 300 words.
Here you should explain issues relating to psychometric testing, as presented in the lecture and workshops
There should be 2 subheadings in the methodology:
Selection and Standardisation of Tests More details later in the session – the importance of using a standardised process
Norm Groups the use of norms and why they are necessary if personality is to be interpreted.
What population have you used in order to obtain a normalised profile of scores? We will be discussing this in the session.
CLIENT RESULTS
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This section should be at least 200 words CONVERTING SCORES – here you will describe BRIEFLY the process
of converting RAW scores to STANDARDISED scores using the formulae used You will do this by hand in the session – so you will need a CALCULATOR
TABLES OF CLIENT’S SCORES – these are given to you in the template and need to be completed.
EXPLAIN THE RANGE OF SCORES You then need to give some brief explanatory comments regarding the results shown in the tables, for example what do the range of standardised scores indicated about the client’s results.
FOR EXAMPLE – what is the average range? Why is a range used for interpretation? What broad bands has the participant scored in comparison to peers?
This comment must help the reader understand the process of calculating scores
You do NOT interpret the profile in this section.
OF INTEREST – Alternative Labels
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Orpheus is a big-five measure of personality developed
specifically for use in the workplace.
It relabels the big five measures:
Fellowship (Extraversion),
Authority (reverse Agreeableness),
Conformity (reverse Openness),
Emotion (Neuroticism) and
Detail (Conscientiousness)
However we are going to use the original labels, as this is
what is commonly seen in research literature and this is
an academic assessment.
CLIENT PSYCHOMETRIC PROFILE
This section should be at least 1000 words
This is a profile is written by a CONSULTANT about a CLIENT
“My client has scored…” etc. (Psychology: Psychometric Report)
There are 4 sections, all directed to the client:
1. Profile Graphs for Personality and EQ
(using Excel, instructions in Workshop folder – see example slide 13)
2. Personality Profile
3. Emotional Competencies Profile
4. Applied Focus – application of personality and EQ to the client’s career
intentions.
Both sections must contain the consultant’s profile + the client’s
response.
The client is actually YOURSELF 13
Graphs – example from previous student
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Here you can see the red box indicated an average range, the green outer lines delineate low average or high average and anything outside this range is a low or high score in comparison to the normative sample. This is called a normative profile.
PERSONALITY
CLIENT PROFILE You are writing this report as a PSYCHOMETRIC CONSULTANT
The client you are writing about is actually YOURSELF
This section should contain a short paragraph for each of the 5 factors.
Tell the client about their T scores and what they mean in terms of their personality compared to psychology undergraduates The evidence for the client’s personality is based on the client’s
scores
Use the trait words associated with the NEO-PI to present the client’s personality.
Do not make value judgements – personality is not GOOD or BAD, it’s a matter of personal differences.
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PERSONALITY
CLIENT REPLY The client says whether they agree with the analysis of their
personality characteristics as determined by the score. This is your client’s right to reply, and must include anecdotal
examples
The client may agree with much of what is said but be unhappy about one area.
The evidence is the client’s reported behaviour.
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EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES
CLIENT PROFILE This section should contain a clear paragraph for each of the 5
competencies and the clients Total Emotional Intelligence.
Tell your client about their T scores and what they mean in terms of their competence compared to psychology undergraduates In other words, an intelligent well-informed population.
Make sure you engage with the specific skills of competencies
You can refer to good, or high, or poor EQ but not BAD.
Always encourage the client!
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EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES
CLIENT REPLY
Give your client’s response, including anecdotal examples, as you did for Personality.
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APPLIED FOCUS
This section should be at least 500 words
This is the client’s aptitude for the career they are considering
This you will know as you are also the client!
1. PERSONALITY FEATURES
Please use the papers provided (see final slide) to help you discuss your client’s profile and how it applies to the type of work your client proposes to do
Are there any challenges for your client?
2. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Report here on the TOTAL EQ score, but present the client with their strengths and targets for development (as indicated by their scores) and how this will relate to the workplace.
THIS SECTION MUST INCLUDE REFERENCE TO LITERATURE THROUGHOUT
Some examples will be provided (linking career choice to personality characteristics, for example) but you will need to do your own additional research. 19
PERSONAL COMMENT
This section must be at least 200 words
The personal comment can be written in the first person – it
will be personal to you.
It is your evaluation of psychometrics in business psychology
You have used this process now as a psychologist – and can view it from
the point of view of researcher and client.
What do you think about psychometrics as a form of measurement in
Psychology? (Psychology: Psychometric Report)
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REFERENCES
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Remember to reference all author/authors you cite in your reports and conclusion (if you wish)
All references must be to academic sources – texts or peer- reviewed journals
Non-academic web pages are not acceptable sources.
PLAGIARISM Do not use material from previous submissions – this is
counted as plagiarism Don’t share your work with another student Don’t use material from another source and present it as your
own Don’t copy ANYTHING from another source into your work,
unless it is an author’s definition, even if you intend to cite the source. Write it in your own words.
Keep up to Date!
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You will have a formative assessment as part of your programme in WEEK 22.
You will be required to bring a DRAFT of the required parts of the report to the assessment, PRINTED.
You will be informed of what this is during the course; Week 21 will be for preparation
Ideally you should be completing your assessment on a WEEKLY BASIS following sessions.
Full notes from every session will be made available on UNIHUB after the session to help you with this. (Psychology: Psychometric Report)
