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The Morrisby Profile and Report
Understanding the Morrisby Profile and Report
South Island School
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Key Dates 2014
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Tues Jan 14 – Bring cheques to Careers Centre
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Fri
Jan 24 – Morrisby Test - Hall
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Fri
Feb 14 – Morrisby Test - Hall
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What is involved?
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Career interest questionnaire. 30 mins at home/school.
Sample questions:
I would like to work with animals
I would like to look after sick or unhappy people
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Over three hours of paper and pencil assessments.
12 exercises: 8 ability, 4 personal style.
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The Morrisby Profile
Abilities
Interests
Personality
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Morrisby Report – Overview
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Intention - to support the process of subject, course and
career choice by providing an objective statement of a
person’s underlying abilities, personality and career
interests
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It uses measured potential rather than simply academic
attainment
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It’s key focus is on What Type rather than How Much ability
a person has.
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Morrisby Report – Overview
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Career guidance is not an exact science – never a 1:1
relationship between a profile and a career
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Used for 30+ years in approximately 70% of UK private
schools, as well as dozens of state schools, plus many large
and small careers organisations.
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Also available in Australia (over 40 schools), New Zealand,
Europe, Middle East.
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The Morrisby Report does not…
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Limit options (say either that you will be successful in… or
cannot do …..)
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Provide ‘The Answer’
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Know about talents such as music, art, sport
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Take into account the current/future job market.
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Ability Test - Reasoning
Look at the string of
beads. At the end of
the string you will
see two question
marks (??) where the
next two beads will
go.
Choose the first and
second missing beads
from the numbered
beads on the right.
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Ability Test - Verbal
Look at the six words. Four of them have something in
common, but two do not belong with the other four.
For each question decide which two words do not
belong with the other four.
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Ability Test - Verbal
Look at the six words. Four of them have something in
common, but two do not belong with the other four.
For each question decide which two words do not
belong with the other four.
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Ability Test - Perceptual
The two figures on the left go together in a certain
way.
Choose two figures, one from each box, that go
together in the same way.
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Ability Test - Perceptual
The two figures on the left go together in a certain
way.
Choose two figures, one from each box, that go
together in the same way.
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Ability Test - Spatial
Look at these three letters or shapes. For each question work out which letter or
shape has been turned or ‘flipped’ over so you can see its other side.
1
2
3
1
2
3
1
2
3
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Not confident
there is a
difference
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Abilities take nearly 3 hours to assess – long enough to
acquire a reliable measure of performance
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Ability test data is stable over time - until age 40(ish) –
interests are less stable
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Scores are normally distributed.
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Sharp (‘chisel’) end of a score reflects error in measurement
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Greater the difference between scores – the more reliable the
inferences made .
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Not confident
there is a
difference
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Tests working together
• Similar concept to profiling of sportspeople
• High jump: - limb length, weight, fast twitch muscles help predict
potential.
Long Legs
Weight
Fast Twitch Muscles
Long Legs
Weight
Fast Twitch Muscles
Long Legs
Weight
Fast Twitch Muscles
High Jumper
Distance runner
Sumo wrestler
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Tests working together
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More is not always better
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Other factors such as motivation, opportunity, interest are
clearly very important (often more so)
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When choosing athletes you would want access to this
information but not to be bound by it.
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Subject Choice
Choose Chemistry
Reasoning
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
Choose Biology
Reasoning
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
This is for discussion only to support other
information when making subject choice.
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General Abilities
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
Arts – Commercial, Literary, Academic
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
Science –Technological, Science, Design
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
Commercial/Organisational – Quantitative
(not necessarily maths), concerned with
organisation, methods, systems
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
Services – People, media, medicine, art
Verbal
Numerical
Perceptual
Flat – All-rounder – maybe undecided.
Balanced.
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Speed & Accuracy
Part 1
• Clerical Checking task
• How fast can the mind operate
• Speed – not power
• Pick up a problem, deal with it, move
onto the next
• Translates into…
 Mental awareness
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Part 2
• Alternation tests
• Tests the ability to
switch from the current
set of behaviour
• A high score denotes
strong perseveration or
an inability to change
mental set.
 Flexibility
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Part 3
• Word fluency test
• Tests divergent thinking
• High score = inwardly
relaxed and self assured
• Limiting factor not
normally vocabulary but a
person’s uncertainty or
hesitancy
 Inner conviction
(personal confidence)
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Part 4
(a & b)
• Ideational Fluency
• Tests decisiveness and
initiative
• The ability to come up with
ideas under pressure
• Quantity not quality
 Public / Outer confidence
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Personal Style Measures
Awareness
Flexibility
Inner conviction
Decisiveness
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Concerned with how a person tackles tasks – personal
style ‘Characteristic mode of behaviour’
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Scores do not depend upon on self-perception
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In the same way that ability results underlie academic
performance, these measures underlie the social
development of a person.
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Morrisby Careers Questionnaire
The Categories
 People
 Information
 Things
 Who
 How
 Where
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Morrisby Careers Questionnaire
Job Content
Questions on task
Job Level
Job Context
Questions on environment
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Career Suggestions (pp 17-19)
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NB. Order of career suggestions is unimportant
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Clearly held interests may outweigh ability test data in the
generation of career suggestions, depending on the clarity
of the profile
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Discussion document – start of the career guidance process
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Questions?
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