Thursday, 28th November 2019 Speakers: Dr Hugh McCredie; Pamela Becker and Nicola Brazil - Hogrefe; Martin Kavanagh - Saville Assessments; Dr Rainer Kurz - Cubiks. Tameron Chappell and Nikita Mikhailov The Psychometrics Forum Event Chairs For our New Frontiers seminar, 2019, we had a return to our more usual format and [...]
Thursday, 28th November 2019 At the start of our networking evening, after the New Frontiers seminar, we held the presentation of our annual Excellence in Psychometrics Award for 2019. We are delighted to be able to announce that the well deserved winner this year was ALI BROWN from Coventry University, UK. The [...]
Tuesday, 24th September 2019 at The Caledonian Club, London, SW1X 7DR. Speakers: Dr Ryne Sherman, Zsolt Feher, Dr David Biggs, Gillian Hyde. This very special event presented the latest thinking and research on Hogan and Leadership with leading speakers from the USA and Europe. It included new research on 8 common patterns responding [...]
Thursday, 16th May 2019 Most personality assessment in an organisational setting involves the use of self-report questionnaires, which assume an underlying stable and enduring personality that can be accurately measured by individuals answering questions about themselves. One of the main criticisms levelled at self-report questionnaires is that they are particularly susceptible to faking [...]
On Wednesday 28th November 2018, we held our annual New Frontiers Seminar, always a popular event, this year was no exception and very well received. The theme for our annual event was: ‘How is technology disrupting the recruitment and development process?’. A huge topic, but our speakers who were a mixture of practitioners currently [...]
Tuesday, 18th September 2018 at the Naval Club Speakers and Topics: Prof. Jill Flint-Taylor BSocSc (Hons), MSocSc, PhD Dr. Angelina Bennet BSc (Hons), MSc, DProf, C.Psychol Transitioning from Middle to Senior Management Any transition requires a level of insight into which attitudes and behaviours need to change and which may still be [...]
Thursday, 8th March 2018 at the Naval Club. Diane Newell Managing Director of The OCM's Coaching Services business Diane led an informative and interactive session in the morning, helping us to explore what neuroscience is revealing about the working of the human mind and we debated: What are we learning from [...]
Tuesday, November 28th 2017 Speakers: Dr Hugh McCredie, Dr Rainer Kurz, Dr Nigel Guenole, James Bywater This very successful and well attended event looked at new concept psychometrics, new applications, new insights, new alternative models of personality, ability and competence, new methods of test administration and comparative validation studies. We [...]
A few words from your editor, Tameron Chappell, Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Harvey Nash. TPF Committee – update Pioneers and landmarks in Intelligence Testing: 4 Intelligence at War: Robert Yerkes and the US Army Alpha examination. Dr Hugh McCredie, Independent Chartered Psychologist & TPF Committee Member Test User-Occupational Personality: Getting it Right? Carl Francis, Head of UK Operations, Psytech [...]
Wednesday, 20th September 2017 This event explored the popular topic of team development and our two speakers brought us a slightly different take on working to improve the effectiveness of teams as a way of enriching and deepening our understanding of how people interact. Alan Robertson Business Psychologist, Director at [...]
