The follow-on article discusses the specifics of the TTI Success Insights approach to addressing the American Psychological Association’s (APA) viewpoints toward and suggestions for measuring critical components of our assessments. The paper focuses on defining and explaining how TTISI is collecting evidence of validity and reliability.
The 2012 technical compendium includes history, reliability and extensive adverse impact data for behaviors, motivators, competencies and The Hartman Value Profile. The strength of the report lies in the fact that it has all of this information in one document. For those wanting the combination of sciences, please know that we plan to maintain this layout as we revise based on the format established in the latest EQ manual.
This paper provides a brief introduction to item response theory, presents a short list of several popular item response theory models, and gives a brief snapshot of the results of the graded response model applied to the TTI Success Insights EQ assessment.
The EQ technical manual contains information on the history and development of emotional intelligence from its beginnings to the current implementation of the concepts as psychometric assessments. Included in this manual are a host of statistical and psychometric analyses used to establish evidence of the validity and reliability of the TTI Success Insights EQ assessment.
A system for predicting potential of success of an individual for a particular job or task. Behavioral and values information is derived from the individual. This information is then analyzed and compared against standards for behavior and values previously calculated for the specific job. An evaluation can then be made of the applicant’s responses to the standards to predict success of a perspective employee for the particular job, or to attempt to improve performance of a current employee for a specific job.