Test diagnostics

How can scientific tests be applied to occupational safety and health?
What tests exist for recruitment? And what's the difference between the quiz-type tests you find in women's magazines and scientific test methods? In the practical facility for test diagnostics, participants can find out more about these and other questions concerning all aspects of psychological diagnostics using standardised test methods.

There are also various stations at which visitors can try out different tests for themselves. For instance, a short concentration test to establish how well they can concentrate on a particular task and how many and what type of errors they make. One example of where concentration tests are used is in the selection of employees whose work requires a high level of concentration, e.g. air-traffic controllers or drivers of heavy-goods/public-transport vehicles.At another station, participants can do a computer-aided test on work-related behaviour and perceptions.

The entire range of more than 70 psychological tests available at the IAG is contained in the IAG test manual. Tests and questionnaires can be assessed both for use in seminars and on research and consulting projects.

Facility resources

• Extensive selection of tests concerning employee development and selection, performance/intelligence/personality plus clinical and health-related tests
• Manual describing the tests available at the IAG
• Posters with explanations and examples of tests and test diagnostics
• Test stations at which participants can try out tests themselves (e.g. paper and pencil tests and computer-aided tests)

Topics covered

• Psychological tests concerning different occupational safety and health (OSH) issues, e.g.
• • stress and stress measurement,
  • perception, thinking and concentration and
  • career guidance and employee selection/development
• Determination of the effectiveness of OSH measures using test diagnostics
• Analysis of work tasks and self-assessment by employees
• Diagnosis of psychological disorders