{"id":2391,"date":"2022-09-26T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2022-09-26T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:03:15","slug":"improving-personality-assessment-tools-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2022\/09\/26\/improving-personality-assessment-tools-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Personality Assessment Tools Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/217\/brown-anna\">Dr Anna Brown &#8211; School of Psychology &#8211; University of Kent<\/a> led to the development of novel personality assessment tools that are resistant to response biases and \u2018faking good\u2019 by candidates. Brown\u2019s methodology enabled multiple world-leading test publishers and organisations, including SHL and Korn Ferry, to develop solutions that improve the validity of proprietary tests. Over five million individual psychological assessments incorporating this methodology have taken place in 37 different languages, across 40 different countries since August 2013. Publishers commend Brown\u2019s \u2018inspiring insights and actionable recommendations\u2019 in recognition of her capacity to help them design \u2018wonderful, innovative\u2019 solution that maximise validity and fairness in assessment. Anna Brown has carried out a series of consultancies for organisations included in this case study offering methodological advice. Her clients also include Caliper, the German Federal Employment Agency, the Enrolment Management Association, ECHO Listening, Talent Q, Whelan &amp; Associates and Talent Today.<\/p>\n<p>Selected publications<br \/>\nBrown, A. (2016). Item Response Models for Forced-Choice Questionnaires: A Common Framework. Psychometrika, 81(1), 135-160.<br \/>\nBrown, A. (2016). Thurstonian Scaling of Compositional Questionnaire Data. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 51(2-3), 345-356.<br \/>\nBrown, A. &amp; Maydeu-Olivares, A. (2018). Ordinal Factor Analysis of Graded-Preference Questionnaire Data. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25(4), 516-529.<br \/>\nDPC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by Dr Anna Brown &#8211; School of Psychology &#8211; University of Kent led to the development of novel personality assessment tools that are resistant to response biases and \u2018faking good\u2019 by candidates. Brown\u2019s methodology enabled multiple world-leading test publishers and organisations, including SHL and Korn Ferry, to develop solutions that improve the validity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1689,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[565,566],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen-science-projects-projects","category-research-partnerships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}