Assessing Personality Forum

Introduction:

Two important considerations for any psychological assessment, including personality assessments, are reliability and validity. As you learned in this chapter, reliability refers to the consistency between results of assessments, while validity represents an assessment’s accuracy in measuring what it is intended to.

The Discussion Prompt:

STEP 1: Take at least two of the personality tests mentioned in this chapter (or other legitimate tests):

1. Big Five personality test: http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
2. Kiersey Temperament Sorter https://www.strategicaction.com.au/keirsey-temperament-sorter-questionnaire. This test is very similar to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
3. Another Myers-Briggs type test: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
4. Cattell’s 16PF questionnaire: http://personality-testing.info/tests/16PF.php
5. Basic version of the color personality test: http://www.colorcode.com/choose_personality_test/

STEP 2: Analyze your results. Discuss the results with at least one other person who knows you (preferably someone who knows you well) and decide if you believe the results accurately describe who you are. In at least 150 words, write a post describing the tests and your results, analyzing both their validity and reliability.

STEP 3: Reply to at least TWO of your classmates in a substantive way, adding to the discussion with at least 75 words. Feedback replies can include (but is not limited to) adding to the knowledge of personality tests or commenting on your classmate’s analysis (including whether there are alternative analyses). Please remember to be respectful in your feedback.

You are not required to cite sources for this forum unless you use an outside source for your information.

Please refer to the Forum Rubric for the grading point system.

Do not plagiarize! Put the information in your own words!