What is GenEd?
In collaboration with The Guidance Partnership: Psytech International (a leading test publisher) has developed an innovative psychometric assessment tool to measure the abilities and vocational interests of young people and adults.
GeneSys Educational (GenEd) has been designed using Psytech International's widely used GeneSys system.
The GenEd software has been specially adapted to offer a flexible and cost-effective 'one stop shop' for initial assessment, guidance and development. There is no pass or fail with the assessment and when used for selection purposes, the results provide a guide, together with other relevant supporting information e.g. school reports, work experience, interviews, application forms etc.
GenEd has been designed to accurately predict career suitability and training aptitude to assist careers guidance and advice specialists, education and training provider networks and employers. It provides a quick and comprehensive picture for both the pre and post 16 range, offering up to 40% of the pre-initial assessment toolkit. The report provides narrative supporting evidence for occupational area(s) and NVQ programme selection and level(s) together with work needs, job suggestions and skill requirements
GenEd's occupational interest profile has been developed so that only a basic level of education is required to complete it. The general ability assessment battery spans verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning. It explores an individual's ability to think logically using words, numbers and abstract concepts, assessing competence in understanding and developing logical arguments and solving complex logical problems. The combined tests take into account educational factors as well as natural or fluid ability levels. As such, they are ideally suited to assess individuals of various educational backgrounds and cultural groups.
Occupational Interest Profile
The Occupational Interest Profile consists of 122 questions and has no time limit, however it is likely that people will take 20-30 minutes to complete it.
Verbal Reasoning
The Verbal Reasoning assessment consists of 35 multiple choice questions and has a time limit of 8 minutes.
Numerical Reasoning
The Numerical Reasoning assessment consists of 25 multiple choice questions and has a time limit of 10 minutes.
Abstract Reasoning
The Abstract Reasoning assessment consists of 25 multiple choice questions and has a time limit of 10 minutes.
Existing users of the assessment tool consider GenEd's key benefits to include the following: