Chair: Rainer Kurz, HUCAMA Analytics
Date: May 21st, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 16:00 (Full-day session)
Price: 80 EUR
Capacity: 30 People
Target Audience:
This workshop is aimed at experienced psychometric test users. Pre-course completion of tools is required (approximately 2h) and some post-course work if a delegate is not already certified at EFPA level 2 or BPS Occupational Test User (Ability & Personality) standard. Participants who attend the workshop obtain HUCAMA FACTORS Practitioner Accreditation.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn about personality, ability, and competency assessments, their interplay, and their application in occupational, counselling, and general psychology.
- The workshop explores the impact of normative and ipsatised measurement as well as extreme tiebreakers on interpretation.
- Participants learn about contemporary thinking with regards to construct hierarchies and the nature of related constructs such as emotional intelligence and learning agility.
- Participants will experience innovative dynamic reporting of individual and group results.
Annotation:
HUCAMA FACTORS is a comprehensive suite of personality, ability, and competency assessments with versions for general, professional, and executive jobs. Interactive demonstrations and case studies will be used to train interpretation of the tools.
Ability Factors is a non-verbal reasoning measure covering Diagrammatic Matrices, Number Series and Spatial Reasoning. The total time limit for the completion of the separately timed sections is 24 minutes, or 12 minutes in screening or follow-up use. A verbal component is also available.
Personality and Competency Factors revolve around an aligned Success Factors model that integrates Cybernetic Personality Theory (DeYoung, 2015) and the Great 8 Competencies (Kurz & Bartram, 2002). Following a development study involving 466 professionals and managers, Dr Kurz unveiled the draft model at The Psychometric Forum in November 2020.
The tools measure 8 factors through 48 facets as aligned predictor and criterion measures respectively. They feature a dynamic Extreme Tie Breaker approach that applies ipsatised scoring techniques (Bartram, 1996) and builds on Kurz (2019). The observed total score validity with reviewer ratings was .41 (N=485).
Completion of the 80 (PF16), 160 (PF32) and 240 (PF48) statements takes about 10, 20 and 30 minutes respectively, and for the 51 questions in HUCAMA Competency Factors about 8 minutes