As a professional development provider, TCEA prides itself on ensuring that the learning we offer is engaging. After all, the research is clear that someone has towant学习才能开始学习。我们这样做的方式之一就是提供破冰机活动在一天和全天。破冰船有助于“温暖”参与者，并得到他们的大脑。他们有助于建立培训的归属感，可以帮助教育者相互联系和网络。
The Personality Test
I recently discovered a new activity that I’ll be using in the future (thanks to TCEA President Holli Horton). It’s afree, online personality testthat is pretty insightful. Although it is free, it offers a lot of sound information and features.
The framework for the test incorporates the latest advances in psychometric research, combining time-tested concepts with robust and highly accurate testing techniques. The test is trait based instead of type based. This means that instead of creating an arbitrary number of categories and attempting to fit people within them, a trait-based model simply studies the degree to which people exhibit certain traits. They do then group your traits into a personality type (because that’s what we are used to). They have four personality types:
- Analysts
- Diplomats
- Sentinels
- Explorers
The assessment is valid because, since it’s free to take, more than 40,000,000 people have taken it thus far, giving them a huge pool of data.(Note: Because they have had so many people from all around the world complete the assessment, they have a ton of data organized by country. You can view ithere. I can see some excellent activities for students in examining this data in teams and drawing some conclusions that they can then test through research.)
How It Works
I took the test myself to see how it works. It takes less than 12 minutes to complete as you answer questions using a standard Likert scale (shown below).
Once I completed the test, I received my results immediately and, to be honest, they fit me to a tee. I am a Defender, which means I have Sentinel traits. According to the results: “Defenders are the backbone of the modern workforce. Altruistic and well-rounded, no other personality type is so well-suited to be of service of others.” My profile included detailed information about for me in several areas:
- 长处和短处
- Romantic relationships
- Friendships
- Parenthood
- Career paths
- Workplace habits
The company promises that it will not sell any personal data to other companies, advertisers, political parties, etc. And again, there is no charge for the test or the results. If you provide an email address, they will email your results to you. But this is not required. They even offer a free “members area” community where you can talk with others about your personality. (So, if you’re like me, you have to be wondering “Why do they provide all of this for free?” Well, the answer is that they do offer premium services at three different levels if you want to know more about your personality type. This includes a much more exhaustive profile — 208 pages — and interactive courses for an entire year. But they are not pushy about this. I have yet to receive any marketing emails from them.)
Using the Personality Test in Professional Development
我可以看到这个快速活动几乎每个人都会感兴趣，即使是那些已经做过其他类型的个性测验的人也会感兴趣。填写是非常简单的，即使我不得不停下来思考关于我的答案的几次。一旦人们有机会阅读他们的结果，我认为将它们按类型放入小组并让他们讨论它们的共同点。然后，如果拥有特定的人格类型/特征导致具有特定的教学风格，我可能会讨论群组。我还会要求他们考虑他们的个性如何与他们的同事更好地工作。
One Other Use
Joel Davis with Follett shares how he has used the information from the personality test professionally. “I’ve created a user manual for myself that I can pass along to co-workers and collaborators. It acts as a sort of quick start manual like you get when you are setting up a new computer or printer.” The information allows co-workers a quick way to learn about him and how they can best work together. You can see a copy of his short reporthere. This is a great idea for the start of the school year to help new staff members learn more about their colleagues. Thanks for sharing, Joel!
我认为这种类型的活动是强大的，应该包括在我们提供的专业学习体验中。你怎么看？
This blog was updated with new content on June 4, 2019.