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The ICES Plus Assessment measures a number of personal attributes of
job candidates. First it provides a measure of a job candidate's abilities
described in terms of: (1) working with numbers (numerical reasoning), (2)
working with words (language skills) and (3) working with shapes (spatial
reasoning). An additional scale is developed from the combination of this
data to provide a measure of the candidate's general ability.
Second, the ICES Plus Assessment provides an assessment of a candidate's
areas of interest described in terms of interest in: (1) working with data,
(2) working with people and (3) working with things. These are the three areas
of working functions used in the U.S. Department of Labor's "Dictionary of
Occupational Titles".
The third and most significant area examined by the ICES Plus Assessment
is an individual's personality traits. The personality assessment is
based upon recognized personality scales for occupational assessment
instruments. These are the major scales of Independence, Conscientiousness,
Extraversion and Stability, (ICES). Each of these major scales is constructed
from two sub-scales or minor scales, details of which are contained in the ICES
Plus Technical Manual.
The fourth area measured by the ICES Plus Assessment has to do with
the internal validity of the candidate's responses to the questions in the
assessment. A scale denoted as Social Desirability can provide a measure of the
degree to which the test taker has modified responses to please or impress
those who will be reading the resulting report. In addition, abnormal
response patterns to the questions in the assessment will invalidate a candidate's
results.
The validation of the ICES Plus Assessment is supported by a study of
5000 employed persons from Great Britain, the United States of America, Asia
and Canada. Our researchers at Newland Park & Associates Limited have also
conducted numerous constructive, content, current and predictive studies to
confirm the validity and reliability of the ICES Plus Assessment. The
results of all of these studies are reported in the ICES Plus Technical
Manual.
For more information on the ICES Plus Assessment, see
"Understanding the ICES Plus Assessment Scales" or contact us
for a hard copy of the ICES Plus Technical Manual.
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