Research Guides: Engineering Leadership Program: Self-Awareness Assessments

Self-Awareness Assessments

There are a lot of self-assessments out there that can help us learn more about ourselves. Below are some that might be interesting to you, and which might help you become a better leader and more successful student.

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YouScience, CliftonStrengths, Strong Interest Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), TruTalent
Big Five Personality Test The big five personality traits are the best accepted and most commonly used model of personality in academic psychology. The traits are extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience.
16 Personalities A personality assessment that starts with Myers-Briggs dichotomies and adds archetypes from Jungian theory as well as some from the Big Five
Curiosity Self-Assessment Measures different types of curiosity described by psychology researchers. Epistemic Curiosity Perceptual Curiosity Interpersonal Curiosity
Emotional Intelligence Gain a deeper understanding of your own emotional intelligence. This assessment illustrates how you rate yourself on five critical dimensions of emotional intelligence. From Harvard Business Review.
Grit Scale Measures how passionate and persevering you see yourself to be. Based on the psychology research of Angela Duckworth.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter Determine your temperament: guardian, idealist, rational or artisan
Myers Briggs Personality Type This test will result in a personality type that includes your tendency towards Extraverted (E) vs. Introverted (I), Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N), Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F), Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P). This test costs $50, but you can also try finding an imitation online, such as this one: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp
Productivity Style Determine if you are a Prioritizer, Planner, Arranger, or Visualizer. It may be helpful to build teams with people of several different types. Results will also list tools and applications that maybe be helpful to your productivity style. From Harvard Business Review.
Project Implicit Find out your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other topics.