Personality and counselling

Abstract

This chapter presents various tests that are related to personality and counseling, such as applied knowledge test (AKT), Bristol social adjustment guides, children's personality questionnaire, Crowley occupational interests blank, and high school personality questionnaire. The subtests of the AKT are: mathematics, english, science, and space. Each of the tests 1-3 contains 25 items and 15 minutes are allowed. Test 4—a search for mirror-image pairs under rotation—has 30 scorable answers and 10 minutes are allowed. A partner to the occupational interest rating scale, the aim of the AKT is “to meet some of the assessment needs of secondary schools for the vocational guidance of young people” and to provide the measures of availability for use of knowledge in mathematics, english, science, and spatial relationship. Children's personality questionnaire is used to obtain predictions of school-related criteria such as academic achievement, especially under-achievement, the tendency towards delinquency, the likelihood of leadership potential, and the possible need for clinical help to avoid excessive emotional disturbance. It can broaden a teacher's understanding of the need for personality development in each child, give greater reliability to that understanding, and help to interpret various aspects of the child's school adjustment.