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The Highlands Ability Battery is the gold-standard among tools assessing human abilities or aptitudes. Developed from the pioneering clinical studies of Johnson O’connor, it is a three hour objective inquiry into the abilities and ability patterns of the individual who completes it. Getting this broader understanding of innate strengths can be measured as early as age fifteen, an ideal time for high school students who typically begin the college process in the junior year.
Assessing Natural Abilities: The Highlands Ability Battery (tHAB)
Other benefits of using natural abilities as a foundation for college counseling….
Because natural ability is part of our genetic makeup, it remains constant and
stable throughout life from 15 to 65 and beyond. Because race, socio-economic
background and education do not influence natural abilities, this kind of
assessment gives a much more authentic reading of a person's potential than
SAT scores or grades that can be inflated. An individual’s multiple abilities can go undetected either because they have not been tested or because they have not been developed in school. Once a student’s abilities have been assessed to show that they think, for example, in three dimensions, these results can be included in the college admissions credentials to indicate an aptitude in engineering, computer science or the study of interpersonal relationships. Remember there are no good or bad abilities-only degrees of strength.
The Battery consists of nineteen worksamples. How quickly and effectively a student
completes each timed worksample establishes whether a particular task is more or less
easy for that individual, Studying the pattern of abilities that are areas of strength for an
individual reveals important clues as to the kinds of learning environments, academic
subjects, and potential careers that are well-suited to build on those aptitudes. Matching
these innate strengths with the academic programs and campus resources of colleges
is the key to successful college counseling.
completes each timed worksample establishes whether a particular task is more or less
easy for that individual, Studying the pattern of abilities that are areas of strength for an
individual reveals important clues as to the kinds of learning environments, academic
subjects, and potential careers that are well-suited to build on those aptitudes. Matching
these innate strengths with the academic programs and campus resources of colleges
is the key to successful college counseling.
The Highlands Ability BatteryTM satisfies both principal standards for an effective and dependable test - reliability and validity. Click Here
