What is psychometric profiling?
Psychometric profiling is a tool whereby various aspects of a human’s mental performance can be assessed. It provides an objective measurement of certain key aspects of an individual. Most commonly such tests will measure different key abilities and/or aspects of personality. Frequently the test results will be “normed” against typical scores from an appropriate group of people. A person’s numerical ability may be at an average level compared to a group of people of the same age on , say, a business studies course (where you might expect figure work to be a strength of theirs) but the same score may look high when compared to a group of people on, say, a history course (where different abilities than numeracy are more likely to be significant for success). How does psychometric profiling enhance the guidance process? If career and educational guidance is to be of real value, it needs, at the same time as offering encouragement, to be based on reality. Whilst interest has a valuable par
