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There
are a number of companies producing assessments and training
materials, including DiSC -like
profiles. The following information demonstrates why I chose
Inscape Publishing -- a standard against which other similar
companies should be compared.
Inscape
Publishing's Commitment to Ongoing Research.
Inscape Publishing is committed to
maintaining the highest standards of instrument development and
application through careful research and development processes. We
ensure all of our instruments offer valid scores and accurate
feedback to the respondent. Each instrument is designed to provide
reasonably accurate interpretations or feedback based on your
scores.
What Does
Valid and Reliable Mean?
Validity indicates whether an assessment measures the concept it
is intended to measure. Reliability indicates whether an
assessment is measuring a concept consistently.
Why is
Validity and Reliability Important to Me?
Inscape Publishing's learning instruments help you better
understand yourself and others by clarifying what you are thinking
and feeling in a particular situation. Their learning instruments
help you discover your responses and tendencies and compare them
with those of others. You receive an interpretation of your
results that helps you understand and explain your responses, to
assist you most effectively and efficiently. However, a
learning instrument can only provide useful feedback if it
measures what it claims to measure and if it does so consistently.
Many companies just give you their best guess. They tell you what
they think their assessment measures and what they think your
results mean. Inscape Publishing uses research to insure that you
receive accurate and meaningful information. The content of
our assessments is based on the real-world experiences of people
nation-wide rather than someone's belief or sales pitch.
Through research, we maximize the accuracy and usefulness of our
products for you.
What is a
Research Report?
A research report provides information on the history and
development of a learning instrument. In addition, information is
included on how the reliability and validity of the instrument was
established.
Listed below
are Inscape Publishing Research Reports for many of our products.
These reports are provided as .pdf files. You will need Adobe
Reader to view these research reports. Adobe Reader can be
downloaded for FREE at:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
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