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History of The Highlands Battery


The Highlands Ability Battery traces its history back to the pioneering studies begun more than seventy-five years ago by Johnson O'Connor, a research scientist who devoted his life to the study of innate human abilities. O'Connor perceived that every individual is born with a pattern of abilities unique to him or her, that those abilities are essentially hard-wired and that they can be measured successfully when the individual is sufficiently mature to manifest or express them — usually, after the age of fourteen.

O'Connor developed a series of tests requiring the client to perform a number of hands-on tasks. The tasks were performed in a laboratory in the presence of a test administrator. They were designed to test and measure such basic aptitudes as ability to work with figures and symbols; color perception; inductive reasoning; analytical reasoning; idea flow; numerical aptitude; structural visualization; musical aptitude; manual dexterity; and memory.

A group of O'Connor researchers conceived of the idea of translating the O'Connor laboratory tests onto paper and pencil. Their work finally resulted in a battery of tests known as worksamples. In completing their paper and pencil battery, these researchers contributed a new and exciting perception — that a valid assessment of innate abilities did not require attendance at a clinic or laboratory but could be done anywhere that a paper and pencil test could be administered and interpreted by trained personnel.

In 1992, Highlands acquired the rights to use the paper and pencil test developed by the O'Connor researchers. Over the years, the Company has trained scores of Affiliates to administer the paper and pencil test, to interpret the results, and to deliver an analytical and instructive feedback to each client.

Beginning in 1997, the Company devoted its energies and resources to development of a computerized version of the Battery. The Battery is now embodied in the Highlands CD, consisting of nineteen worksamples replicating the critical tasks on the paper and pencil test. The CD enables each client to complete the test on his own PC and to obtain a bar chart and report displaying and analyzing his or her scores electronically. At the same time, the report is transmitted to a Highlands Affiliate, who incorporates the results in the feedback which follows. Since its introduction in 1999, more than 6,000 individuals have completed the Highlands CD Battery and received feedback.

On June 1, 2004, the Company introduced the Highlands Ability Battery Online. The online Battery may be completed on any computer with access to the Internet.

To sample the ability battery click here.

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