About Us
Delivering A Fair Solution Is Our Ultimate Goal!
Since 1966, Our Team Has Perfected A Proven Culture-Fair Trainability Testing To Find The Best Candidates With The Most Potential.
My Potentia is a language-free, culture-fair, digital assessment tool for measuring a person’s learning potential and trainability.
It reliably predicts a person’s learning and training potential. It requires no prior learning, prior education, or level of literacy. It does not include any symbols, icons or gestures that may be familiar to a particular culture, region or country. This removes bias and makes My Potentia fair to a wide range of demographic and cultural groups.
Language-Free and Culture-Fair Assessment of Cognitive Ability
My Potentia is the digital version of well validated, comprehensive, language free and culture fair tests that have existed since 1955.
The first assessment was the Pacific Island Regiment Test (PIR) which was developed by Australian Army Psychologists to use in PNG to select recruits from the hundreds of tribes that each had their own language. Use of the test reduced the failure rate at recruit course from 20% to 2%.
The seminal research in language free and culturally fair assessments was performed in 1967,by a young Army Psychology officer, Major G. Kearney (later to become Professor G E Kearney) and Professor Donald MacElwain. Major Kearney used the assessment in PNG and commented that if it “worked in PNG it would work with Australian Aborigines”. He conducted a significant Doctoral research project based on the Pacific Island Regiment Test with Australian Aborigines in Central Australia and Queensland.
This research resulted in the Queensland Test being developed as an individually administered, language free and culturally fair assessment. The assessment consisted of 6 sub-tests with 2 tests measuring each of three factors memory, spatial ability and foresight/problem solving ability.
In 2015, due to it’s success, there was pressure to make it easier to deploy to assess larger groups. My Potentia was developed as the digital version of the assessment replacing the earlier version which had been used to assess over 16,000 candidates.
Research and statistical analysis showed that the correlation between My Potentia and the previous version was r=.85, meaning both tests “measure the same thing”.
My Potentia is delivered on an android tablet by trained administrators and the candidates’ responses are uploaded, scored and reported.
Some Interesting Facts
Numbers Speak For Themselves
My Potentia removes bias by being language-free and culture-fair.
This ensures that everyone has an equal chance of achieving their full potential when taking the test.
Identify Trainability
My Potentia is a culturally-fair assessment tool that can be used to measure a person’s learning potential and trainability. It is unbiased and does not favour any particular culture, region or country. This makes it an ideal tool for organisations that want to recruit and train employees from a wide range of backgrounds.
My Potentia can also be used to assess the learning potential of children. This makes it an invaluable tool for educators who want to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to learn.
Destroy Cultural-Bias
Many cognitive ability tests, including popular traditional verbal and numerical tests, are biased in favour of those who are comfortable with English. This can create a distinct disadvantage for those who do not have English as their first language.
Because these tests rely on verbal and written communication, people who are not comfortable with English may struggle to answer the questions correctly. This can lead to inaccurate results and a lower score than they deserve.
Engaging and Interactive
My Potentia is a more engaging and interactive assessment tool than traditional tests. Unlike traditional tests, My Potentia does not rely on verbal communication. This makes it more engaging and interactive for test takers of all ages and abilities.
It is designed to measure a person’s learning potential and trainability, so it is perfect for organisations that want to recruit and train employees from a wide range of backgrounds. It is also ideal for educators who want to assess the learning potential of children.