Validated behavioral and cognitive assessments

Whereas psychology seeks to understand the mind, psychometrics is the science of actually measuring mental capacities and processes. It is about taking psychological science—like theories of personality and cognitive ability—and building tools that allow us to measure these underlying traits and abilities of people. Psychometrics are immensely challenging to get right. Unlike other fields where you can directly measure stuff—like height and weight— psychological structures are invisible and therefore can’t be measured directly. Psychometrics is about building tools that indirectly but accurately measure people’s psychological make-up.

Our psychometricians build, refine and test tools like the behavioral assessment and cognitive assessment. That means they are valid and measure what they are supposed to measure. It also means they are precise and reliable. In order to demonstrate validity and reliability, psychometricians gather evidence and conduct analyses using fancy tools, like SPSS and R, and statistical techniques such as Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Latent Modeling, and Item Response Theory.

You should know that both the behavioral assessment and cognitive assessment are psychometrically rigorously developed tools and we have the technical documentation to back it up.

Our assessments are developed following recognized psychological standards and guidelines, including the American Psychological Association (APA), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the International Test Commission (ITC). These guidelines provide a framework for test construction and the proper use of assessments. The Predictive Index provides well-researched, valid and reliable employee assessments which can help support clients’ legal compliance with the EEOC and the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures. We offer validation services for our clients that are necessary to establish the job-relatedness of our assessments.