BPS Level 2 Personality Test User Course

BPS Level 2 Personality Test User Online Training Course

With more than 20 years of experience in teaching this course face-to-face in many different parts of the world from the UK to the UAE, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and more, our award-winning Chartered Psychologist Facilitator is pleased to be able to offer the same course online since 2008. Over the years of offering this course, we have been motivated by the kind feedback received from our students and firmly believe we have a great option for quality training that highlights our passion for the competent use of psychometric assessments as well as effective online learning techniques and tools.

This course is for those who have already completed both the BPS Level 1 Assistant Test User training and the BPS Level 2 Ability Test User training and who wish to be able to interpret and provide useful feedback about personality assessment results to respondents and decision-makers. Upon successful completion of the course, students become eligible for the BPS Level 2 Personality Test User Qualification as well as the EFPA Euro Test User Certification.

Topics covered in our BPS Level 2 Personality Test User Course

VALIDITY ISSUES SPECIFIC TO PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS

• Validity Issues for Personality Questionnaires
• Statistical Analysis versus Pragmatic Value
• Chance Relationships and ‘Going Fishing’
• Multiple Regression for Personality Questionnaires
• Correction for Shrinkage

APPROACHES TO ASSESSING PERSONALITY

• Developing Questionnaires: Rational, Empirical and Theoretical Approaches
• Methods of Personality and Performance Assessment
• Response Style and Distortion in Personality Questionnaires
• Forms of distortion
• Minimising and Controlling Distortion
• Transparent versus Opaque Instruments
• Ipsative versus Normative Scaling
• Spurious Validity
• Pseudo-Scientific Measures of Personality

PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT INTERPRETATION

• Learning appropriate to the vast majority of personality assessments
• Specific focus on the Identity Self-Perception Questionnaire
• Consideration of multiple other personality assessments

PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK

• Introduction to Feedback
• Purposes of Feedback
• Preparation for Feedback
• Feedback Skills
• The Feedback Interview Structure
• Discussing Results – Personality Assessments

PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT WRITTEN REPORTS

• The Interim Report
• The Integrated Report