Other Personal
Self-Assessments
These websites feature self-assessments
developed by different people and with different purposes. I link to them here
because they might be able to help you get to know yourself better and might
offer you insight into work, family, leadership style, relationships challenges,
and even your health.
These first few sites offer extensive
collections of assessments.
About.com: Kimeiko Hotta Dover does a
great job linking to many
learning styles assessments as part of her Adult Education guide. In her HR
guide, Susan Heathfield also compiles a list of assessments, more focused on
work-related issues.
Tickle offers a very large selection of online tests that help you
understand most any aspect of your life. The tests are fast, fun, and always
illuminating! Some of our favorite tests include:
All the Tests links you
to a variety of tests that span topics including IQ, EQ, health, personality,
career, knowledge, language, relationship, MCSE, SAT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.
Barbarian's Online Tests
This site offers and extensive collection of online intelligence,
personality, and general aptitude tests.
Personality and I.Q. Tests
This site is so rich in personality tests, career tests, and fun tests to take
that I linked the site for your convenience and enjoyment. Some of the tests are
serious online profiles; others are just for fun. Take a look.
These sites offer specific assessments,
primarily for personal development.
What is your temperament? Like the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,
the
Keirsey
Temperament Sorter II and the
Paragon Learning
Style Inventory are personality tests
based on the work of Carl Jung that assess introversion/ extroversion,
intuition/sensation, thinking/feeling, and judging/perceiving. A terrific book
that offers both the assessment and in depth analysis (and help) with each MBTI
style can be found in the book
Please Understand Me by David Keirsey. (You can take the original MBTI
online for a fee at
PersonalityDesk.) In addition, the
Five Factor
IPIP-NEO gives you one more dimension.
What is your social style? David
Merrill's
Social Styles Model is described at length in Merrill's book
Personal Styles
& Effective Performance and is most easily available through Roger and
Dorothy Bolton's book
People
Styles at Work. Social styles differ from personality styles because they
mostly focus on differences between how people interact with one another rather
than how they are wired.
More on learning styles.
Branton Shearer's Multiple Intelligence
Development Assessment Scales (MIDAS)
instrument, Keith
Rogers' Indicator of Multiple Intelligences (RIMI), the Tickle
Multiple
Intelligence Test, and Colin Rose's
How are
You Smart are adapted from Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences.
The
Index of Learning Styles (ILS) Questionnaire from Richard Felder, Linda
Silverman, and Barbara Soloman assesses preferences in four dimensions
(active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global).
The
Barsch Learning Style Inventory is another on-line test you can print and
use for personal purposes.
What's your Real Age? Take
The RealAge® Test to find our
the biological age of your body, based on how well you've maintained it.
What's your life color?
Life Color Lite is a short test to find out what color represents your
personality and what that color means to your life. Pamala Oslie has also
written a book on this called
Life Colors. Tickle offers asks
What's Your Signature Color?
What is your motivation?
iVilliage offers a
motivation test focused on creativity, power, and money.
How happy are you? The
Authentic Happiness
site offers an assortment of questionnaires to help you improve how you view the
world.
What's your eating style?
The Integrative Eating Program an interactive self-test that will give you
your personal eating profile. Also, Tickle has a
Healthy
Eater assessment.
How do you cope with trouble? Take a
Coping with Trouble assessment.
How well do you handle adversity? Take the
Optimism assessment.
How forgiving are you? This
Forgiveness assessment helps you gain an accurate sense of where you are
right now.
Is spirituality empowering your life?
Take
this
Spirituality and Well-Being assessment.
Organizational Assessments
How is your organization's health?
The
Organization Health
Survey ranks your answers about your organization against everyone else who
has taken the survey in the past. Find out how your organization ranks on issues
such as trust, benefits, management, leadership, communication, customer service
and employee involvement.
Do the values you embrace fit the company you
work for? Take the
Values Audit
For-fee
Assessments
In
addition to self-assessments, various organizations offer services and products
to help you and your organization assess various factors of personality, style,
and environment. Here are a few of those. Various fees apply.
About Learning
offers:
