A Change of Preference

In the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to work with a bunch of really great people.  A lot of this work was focused on one of our assessments; the Team Management Profile  (TMP). Some of the people I worked with had taken the assessment for a second time, after a number of years [...]

Preference Assessments – Face Validity

In our continuing focus on preference assessments we’re taking a look at face validity.  Previous posts include Preference Assessments – What Are The Measuring and Preference Assessments – Test Retest Reliability Face validity is one form of preference assessment validity that is relatively subjective and therefore an easy target for those wanting to criticize these types [...]

Preference Assessments – Test Retest Reliability

In follow up to our last post Preference Assessments – What Are They Measuring we’re going to take a quick look at one source of contention when you land on the side of seeing preference as primarily a nature phenomenon as compared to a nurture one.  That point of contention is test retest reliability. Test [...]

Preference Assessments – What Are They Measuring?

There often is quite heated debate about what preference assessments are actually measuring.  It tends to be a variation of the nature vs. nurture argument with passionate positions being taken on either side.  For us we don’t take so much a nature vs. nurture perspective as trying to balance a psychological and social constructionist perspective.  [...]