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Workbook Design Principles

 
   
 

Design Principle

  Consequence
  1. Motivated adults are capable of gaining insight into themselves if presented with appropriately constructed instruments and written materials. Individual workbooks are a way of accomplishing this.

  2. Individuals who use our workbooks should not have to have a grounding or academic background in psychometric theory or statistics in order to use it.

  3. Individuals who use our workbooks must be able to understand their results without having training in academic psychology.


  4. The workbook must recognize that different people have different ways of gaining clarity on, and acting on, personal feedback.
 
  1. WCI Press self descriptive workbooks will be complete and self contained, with every thing needed by an individual (questions, scoring instructions and interpretation material) contained in the workbook.

  2. The construction of the questions and the scoring method must be straight forward, and be capable of being understood by a working individual.

  3. The workbook must describe behavior and behavior patterns that are observable by others. The construction of the model or conceptual framework used in the workbook must be explained in the interpretation section.

  4. The interpretation section must be structured so that people can go to their results, and read only their results. This will allow those who understand best through dialoguing with others to read the minimum necessary. At the same time, the interpretation section must allow those who understand through reflection to understand their results. The workbook must be set up so that there are a variety of learning paths through it, allowing individual readers to shape their use to their needs and personal development styles.
 
 


Interacting with Others / Gathering and Using Information /  Making Decisions / Structuring Personal Activity
 Development Styles /  Relating Styles
/ The GPS Profile

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