Adept-15 assesses 15 unique aspects of personality critical for successful performance in a wide range of organizational roles.

Ten aspects are based directly on the well-validated Five Factor model of personality, and five additional aspects stem from decades of research on leadership effectiveness and learning orientation.

The ADEPT-15 relies on modern psychometric theory to more accurately model test taker response processes and present items in a computerized adaptive testing (CAT) format that enhances accuracy and security and mitigates socially desirable responding.

Each item is presented in a multi-dimensional forced choice format that requires test takers to choose the one option in each pair that they believe is most descriptive of themselves.

Items are composed of pairs of statements chosen and matched on the basis of a test taker’s previous responses as well as on social desirability and other psychometric constraints.

The test takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and draws on a pool over 200,000 unique item pairs.

The ADEPT-15 was designed from the ground-up to be fair, globally relevant and infinitely flexible. Throughout the development cycle, great care was taken to ensure all items are “culture-free” and have minimal demographic (e.g., ethnicity, cultural, gender, disability status, etc.) differences.

To ensure maximum flexibility for use in both leadership development and selection contexts, ADEPT-15 was designed to be modular allowing for the administration of short, tailored versions focusing only on desired subsets of the available dimensions.

ADEPT-15 can be used for selection and development.