After months of research and development, Highlands introduced the online
version of the Highlands Ability Battery on June 1, 2004. The Battery may
be accessed at
www.abilitybattery.com.
The online version enables anyone anywhere to complete the Battery. All you
need is a computer with Internet connection - PC or MAC - a keyboard, a
mouse, and a monitor with sound. To begin the Battery, you need a Registration
Key. You may obtain the Registration Key from a Highlands Affiliate at
www.highlandslifeandcareercenter.com or from the Highlands Company. To
read the online instruction sheet,
click here.
The online Battery may be completed in one sitting or at intervals. The
Battery contains nineteen worksamples, each one assessing a different innate
ability. The key to the Battery is its objectivity. It is neither a self-reporting
device nor an external assessment by other individuals, nor a measure of
skills or knowledge. Instead, it is an objective measure of the individual's
relative ability to perform defined hands-on tasks.
At completion of the Battery, the individual's computer generates a 30-page
report which analyzes his or her scores on each worksample and converts the
scores to percentiles. The report begins with a summary bar chart which
shows the individual's percentiles at a glance. The rest of the report
describes each worksample, the meaning of each result and the significance
of each result to the individual.
A copy of the report is transmitted to a Highlands Affiliate, who uses the
report in assessing the individual's abilities profile and in preparing for
the feedback consultation.
A typical individual profile and bar chart may be reviewed from this page.
The chart shows all the work samples which make up the Highlands Battery
and the score achieved by a sample individual in each of the worksamples.
Construed together, the scores form the individual's Ability Profile.
