What Makes a Good Personlity Test

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What makes a good Personality Test? There are many different sorts of personality tests, word list choices, statement list choices, rate this statement as to how much it reflects who you are, picture tests(ink blots) asking you to interpret what you are seeing, lickert scale response tests, ipsative tests and a host of others. But with so many types of tests, how do you determine which one is the best for you especially and how do you make a good personality test? I think the first question to ask myself is what am I trying to accomplish when making a personality test. For instance, am I finding out if the person might work well in a team made of other diverse individuals? Or am I looking out if the individual matches the criteria for success you have identified in your environment? Is it an issue of understanding what I will need to do to develop the individual after you hire him/her and will you invest the funds if I was working for a business? Or is it an issue of getting the test to make your selection for myself? The next question is how structurally developed are these personality test that I am making. Is it a series of questionnaires or possibly combination of other personality tests? Are the results bias or backed up with scientific evidence? Overall, making a personality is really to find what is there to accomplish. Personality tests are very useful tools, providing integrate use of the instrument within a process and let the tool offer objective information to support your selection process, help us with developmental planning, and also to increase team effectiveness by enabling people to understand how others might be the same or different from themselves by having knowledgeable background about his/her
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