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The Center for Applied Cognitive Studies provides online SchoolPlace Big Five Profile assessments to independent consultants and schools.  Various reports with the results of the analyzed data are available (see catalog).

The SchoolPlace Big Five Profile 2.0™ is a personality assessment based on the Five-Factor Model of Personality, the current standard for psychologists worldwide. The variables on SchoolPlace reports are interchangeable with WorkPlace, but the terminology is chosen specifically for students ages 12 to 22 in secondary and higher education.

Key components of the Five-Factor Model include:

• Personality has five broad dimensions
• Scores on the dimensions will fall along a normal distribution (Bell curve)
• Personality is best described by individual traits rather than type groupings
• The strength of individual scores indicates personality preferences
• People who score in the middle range of a scale have a blend of behaviors of its two opposite, anchor traits

Schools, colleges, and universities introduce the Five-Factor Model with SchoolPlace to students and help with personal development and career choices. Organizations use SchoolPlace to hire students joining the working world directly from an educational setting. With only 134 questions on the Long Form and 48 questions on the Short Form, students find the online or paper test administration easy to complete.

Applications include:

• Self understanding
• Student career planning
• Leadership development
• Student counseling
• Family counseling
• Team building
• Relationship understanding
• Learning style identification
• Learning strategy development
• Pre-employment screening and selection
• Communication/conflict management
• Curriculum integration

SchoolPlace is a normative test, and was normed on 12 to 22 year old students from both public and private high schools and universities. The test’s average coefficient alpha of .81 is among the highest for assessments of similar length and scope.

Using SchoolPlace for team building

Students learn about themselves, their teammates, and how to improve communication and teamwork with others. This type of session is appropriate for cooperative learning teams, study teams, project teams, sports teams and community volunteer teams.

Students learn:

• About their unique personality profile
• How individuals on the team may conflict
• Who has similar personality traits
• Tolerance and respect for differences
• How to strengthen communication
• The strengths each individual brings to the team in different situations
• When to seek out different viewpoints
• What people can and cannot change about themselves

Using SchoolPlace for leadership development Students learn:

• About their unique personality profile
• The typical leader profile
• Customizing a leader profile ideally suited for their particular classroom, project team, etc.
• Strategies to compensate for their natural behaviors where different from leader profile
• Various leadership models
• A basis for what one can and cannot change

Using SchoolPlace for career counseling and/or coaching

When personality traits are combined with the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies’ Career Guider, a coach may help students capitalize on strengths, minimize challenges, and develop career plans. Students are better able to select the right educational program, prepare for careers, and study effectively.

Students learn:

• About their unique personality profile
• How personality traits may support or hinder career goals
• Learning strategies tailored to specific personalities
• A basis for what one can and cannot change

Hiring and selection of students

Using the WorkPlace Big Five Profile (parallel instrument to SchoolPlace), hiring organizations first determine a job-specific target profile, then use SchoolPlace to assess student candidates against the target profile. This is effective because SchoolPlace uses language and questions far more familiar to a student than work-related questions. SchoolPlace is a crucial step in the selection process, along with critical behavioral interviewing, reference checking, and IQ testing.

By hiring the right student in the right role, organizations:

• Reduce attrition
• Increase productivity
• Increase employee satisfaction and morale
• Use training dollars effectively

Related SchoolPlace Products

Want to know more about SchoolPlace fundamentals and applications? Email us at info@centacs.com.

• Professional Manual for the SchoolPlace Big Five Profile 2.0™
• SchoolPlace Big Five Profile Workbook: Applying Personality Results at School
• SchoolPlace Big Five Characteristics Card Sort Exercise
• Student Big Five Pearls Card Sort Exercise
• SchoolPlace Big Five Profile 2.0 Colorful Wall Poster of the 5 Supertraits
• Special Reports for the SchoolPlace Big Five Profile 2.0
• The Career Guider
• The Learner
• The Leader
• The Owner’s Manual for Personality at Work: How the Big Five Personality Traits Affect Performance, Communication, Teamwork, Leadership, and Sales
• The Owner’s Manual for the Brain