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Stanine System
Benchmarking
How Benchmarks Are Established

The Achiever is a unique test in that it combines mental and personality measurement in one instrument. It also has a scoring system that provides scores on a scale that can be related to the Normal Distribution and that easily relates scores to the job requirements by means of a benchmark of successful performers.

The Achiever measures the following aptitudes and traits:

Six Mental Aptitudes:

• Mental Acuity - learning comprehension, judgment, reasoning and problem-solving ability
• Business Terms - knowledge of basic business terms
• Memory Recall - knowledge of current events as they relate to the job
• Vocabulary - general English vocabulary skills
• Numerical Perception - ability to handle numerically related tasks quickly and accurately
• Mechanical Interest - measures interest in the mechanical area

Ten Personality Traits:

• Energy - energy, drive, tension and stress levels
• Flexibility - integrity, reliability, dependability and work ethics
• Organization - personal orientation to plan and utilize time wisely
• Communication - innate ability to meet and interact with people
• Emotional Development - ego, self-esteem, self-confidence and ability to handle pressure
• Assertiveness - strength and determination to get one's way
• Competitiveness - team orientation versus individualistic competitiveness
• Mental Toughness - psychological stamina to deal with life and job problems
• Questioning/Probing - instinct to question and probe rather than accepting things at face value
• Motivation - security-motivated or recognition, incentive and commission oriented

The Achiever also contains two validity scales to assess the accuracy of The Achiever report:

• Distortion - frankness of the respondent as related to the statistical validity of the personality dimensions
• Equivocation - consistent decision-making of the respondent as it relates to the accuracy of the personality dimensions measured

The Achiever uses the Stanine scoring system to compare an individual’s scores to a benchmark and the Normal Distribution. To learn more about the Stanine system and Benchmarking with The Achiever, click the links below:
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Benchmarking