The Highlands Ability Battery
The Highlands Ability Battery is the
gold-standard among tools assessing
human abilities or aptitudes. Developed
from the pioneering clinical studies of
Johnson O’Connor, it is a three-hour
objective inquiry into the abilities and
ability patterns of the individual who
completes it.
The Battery consists of nineteen
different worksamples. Each worksample
is timed to measure the speed with which
the individual is able to do a
particular series of similar tasks. The
individual’s score on each worksample
establishes whether a particular task is
more or less easy for that individual.
Shown together on a personal profile and
bar chart, the scores achieved by each
individual reveal patterns or “clusters”
of abilities which require analysis by a
skilled interpreter. Once these patterns
or “clusters” are understood, the
individual is helped to guide his life
and work into more productive and
satisfying channels.
About Abilities... Everyone is born with
a range of abilities unique to him or her. It’s fair to say that these
abilities are essentially hard-wired. They mature during infancy and can
be measured in most individuals after the age of fourteen. Highlands
measures these abilities by asking the individual to perform nineteen
hands-on worksamples.
One example of an innate ability is manifested when an individual is
confronted with a number of seemingly unrelated objects or facts and is
asked to organize them into their unifying relationship. We call this
ability Classification. Individuals who score high in this ability are
good at solving new problems and like change and challenge. Persons who
score low will find that they work best when their tasks are
well-defined and organized.
The function of the Highlands Ability Battery is to define each Ability
and then to determine the patterns or “clusters” into which each
person’s abilities fall. Armed with this knowledge, the individual is
able to avoid stress and achieve satisfaction and success at work or
school.
To download a descriptive brochure
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When a student completes the Highlands Ability
Battery, she receives a special student report. The report is
different from the adult report in several respects. It is specially
designed to address the student’s need to make important choices among
options in study and career. The report relates the student’s ability to
perform a particular worksample to her score on the worksample.
The student’s score on a particular worksample shows the ease with which
she can perform the task measured by the worksample. Because the
worksample is timed, the student’s score will show whether the
worksample was more or less easy to perform. A student who finds a
particular task easy to do will be happiest and most productive in work
requiring that task. A student who finds a particular task relatively
difficult is able to perform the task, given enough time, but will
probably be more comfortable and satisfied in some other task which
comes more easily to her.
When a student knows and understands her true abilities, she is more
likely to pursue studies and a career which will produce the greatest
measure of satisfaction and stability throughout her life.
For a sample student report
click here
To schedule the
Highlands Ability Battery for yourself or someone you love
click here
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