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Psychometric Testing: The Power of Cognitive and Learning Potential Assessments for Your Organisation

If you are seeking psychometric testing in South Africa, we at Orgro offer a variety of exceptional assessments to help you meet your organisational goals. Employee interviews and observations may provide organisations with some insight into their skills and aptitude, but the only way to truly measure these traits is through psychometric assessments. Cognitive and learning potential are especially important as they assess an employee’s future and current potential, and measure how they process problems. This is valuable in predicting workplace behaviour and is a sought-after assessment during the hiring and recruitment process. We at Orgro offer various assessments of this kind and more, ensuring that all our psychometric testing is fair, culturally relevant, and highly insightful.

What Psychometric Testing Can Do for You

Psychometric testing makes use of science-based assessments that provide a way of measuring certain traits in an individual. These traits can include personality, aptitude, strengths, values and integrity, emotional intelligence, as well as cognitive and learning potential. If you are looking for psychometric testing in South Africa, we at Orgro can assist you with a range of local and international assessments. The benefits of this testing extend far beyond personal and professional development for employees, as it makes other workplace operations easier and more efficient too. These assessments offer advantages during employee selection, training and development, succession planning, and role assignment.

The Cognitive Processing Profile (CPP)

One of the assessments we use for cognitive processing assessments is the Cognitive Processing Profile, (CPP). CPP offers a simulation exercise for employees, which involves an unfamiliar task or situation. The test is about defining the candidate’s thinking processes and shows their actual behaviour instead of self-reported answers to questions about their behaviour. The assessment is not about right or “correct” answers, rather, it is about indicating how an employee approaches new and unfamiliar challenges, as well as their learning potential for future developmental purposes. Another major benefit of the test is its cross-cultural applications which embrace a variety of stylistic preferences in candidates.

APIL and TRAM Assessment Tools

APIL ((Conceptual) Ability, Processing of Information, and Learning) and TRAM (Transfer, Automatisation, and Memory) are two learning potential batteries that are applicable across a wide educational spectrum. This means that whether the candidate has completed tertiary education, or has no education at all, the assessment still applies. APIL has been used successfully for over two decades and assesses traits such as conceptual formation, learning gradient, understanding of new material, and more. The TRAM assessment is similar, where TRAM-1 is suited for employees with between zero and nine years of education, and TRAM-2 is best suited to those with 10 and 12 years of educational training.

Other Psychometric Assessments Offered by Orgro

Apart from cognitive and learning potential assessments, we at Orgro offer a full suite of other psychometric testing options too, including:

Personality assessments.
Aptitude evaluations.
Emotional intelligence testing.
Individual integrity testing.
Values measuring.
Career pathing.

Our psychometric testing has a proven track record of providing organisations with vital information that allows them to make informed decisions about recruitment, training and development, and performance management. This is essential in helping them meet their desired organisational outcomes. If you would like to know more, speak to us today.