This white paper takes a look at personality, what it is and isn’t, if it can be measured, and the science behind personality-based assessments. The paper explains the difference between “personality tests” which tend to place a person in a box, by assigning a ‘type’ or identifier, and more focused personality-based assessments, which measure defined components of one’s personality.
TTI SI recently received a request to provide a research-supported rationale for TTI SI’s use of natural and adapted DISC graphs in our reports. This is a good reminder that some things are so obvious to us internally that we fail to provide the outside world with the documentation needed to understand our decisions. The graphic separation of the DISC data is a great example. This paper will not only explain how these two graphs provide crucial differentiating information, it will also point out how a single averaged DISC graph can be very misleading when trying to understand human behavior.
This is the third in a series of articles outlining the International Test Commission’s (ITC) Guidelines for Translating and Adapting Tests. The ITC guidelines are provided in a six-category format that includes the topics pre-condition, test development, confirmation, administration, scoring and interpretation, and documentation. It is the goal of this series to provide the motivation behind and an outline for the TTI Success Insights translation protocol.
