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Ed•u•tain•ment

Tagged as: culturewise, education, edutainment, Leaders in action, play

22 February 2012 Product related

Noun 1. – entertainment that is intended to be educational 2. – the act of learning through a medium that both educates and entertains. entertainment, amusement – an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention The term Edutainment has been around a long time – thought to have been coined by The Walt [...]

Do You Assess Train Drivers?

Tagged as: conductors, Schuhfried, train drivers, VTS

21 February 2012 Product related

JVR in alliance with Schuhfried is collecting South African data to do research on the Vienna Test System Rail Battery. There is an opportunity for organisations that assess train drivers to participate in this research. You will be able to have the VTS Rail Battery placed for a limited time period (1 – 2 months) [...]

To our EQ clients – Be part of our EQ-i 2.0 normative research and receive free reports

Tagged as: EQ-i, EQ2.0

15 February 2012 Product related

Research on the EQ-I 2.0 We are now in the final stages before going “live” with the South African data collection for the EQ-i 2.0. Our research team has been liaising with Multi-Health Systems Inc. (MHS) in setting up the system for research and we are excited to share this system with you. We need [...]

NEW! HOGAN VALUES REPORT

3 February 2012 Product related

VALUES – the core motives, interests, and beliefs that determine what we desire and strive to attain – have tremendous consequence in terms of what type of work we find fulfilling, how we operate within a team, and how we fit into an organization. As the international authority in personality assessment and consulting, Hogan has [...]

Updates On Our South African Offering

Tagged as: South African Assessments

9 December 2011 Product related

There is lots of exciting activity on our South African Product Range. Here are some of the highlights: We are working on our very own South African platform – the JvR Compass. More info to follow soon. The ‘look and feel’ of the Study Orientation for Mathematics (SOM) have been improved. The TriMaths is now available [...]

Christmas Special On New VTS Panels

Tagged as: Schuhfried, Vienna Test System, VTS

7 December 2011 Product related

This special offer is up until the end of December! 10% price off + free update on VTS or CPS + brandnew free USB Headphones The new panel offers a number of new assets: Hidden USB plug for the dongle to prevent it from loss or theft New technology on the golden „rest key“ – [...]

A New Addition To Our Clinical And Educational Range: ASEBA

Tagged as: Achebach Sytem of Empirically Based Assessment, ASEBA, assessments

7 December 2011 Product related

JvR is proud to announce a new addition to our clinical and educational range of products: the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA®) products. The ASEBA® products are designed to assess competencies, adaptive functioning, and behavioural, emotional and social problems in young children and adolescents as well as substance use in adults 18 years [...]

Update on the EQ-i® 2.0

Tagged as: emotional intelligence, EQ2.0, MHS

7 December 2011 Product related

Five months have passed since the EQ-i 2.0 became available internationally and it has been five full months indeed. We have had five EQ-i 2.0 trainings since August 2011, resulting in 50 new accredited EQ-i users. Our current training includes both the EQ-i and the EQ-i 2.0, and also includes accreditation training on the EQ360 [...]

Sandplay Therapy

Tagged as: sandplay kit

25 October 2011 Product related

Margaret Lowenfeld originated Sandplay in 1939. She published a paper about this groundbreaking work, called The World Pictures of Children: A Method of Recording and Studying Them (Weinrib, 2004). Dr. Lowenfeld worked as Freudian psychiatrist at the Institute for Child Psychology in London, where she used a method called the World Technique. In 1954, Dora [...]

MBTI® Accreditation Training in Botswana (Gaborone) (20% Discount on normal fee)

17 October 2011 Events

Discover the World’s Most Widely Used Personality Indicator [22-25 November 2011] Are you an HR consultant, psychologist or other mental health practitioner based in or near Gaborone? Jopie van Rooyen and Partners, distributors of the MBTI® instrument in Sub-Saharan Africa are proud to be hosting the first MBTI® certification event near you! In the [...]

Hogan Research Study

Tagged as: Hogan

6 October 2011 Product related

(via Hogan Assessment Systems) Peter Berry Consultancy (PBC) and Hogan Assessment Systems are collaborating on a longitudinal research study into graduate selection and development in Australia. This study includes the assessment of graduates from various industries and has been underway for 18 months. From this research, we seek to identify: Common personality profiles and values of [...]

The MBTI Form M: South African research

Tagged as: MBTI, research department

8 September 2011 Product related

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The JVR research department has recently finished a study aimed at investigating the psychometric functioning of the MBTI Form M in South Africa. Both Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) techniques were employed for this purpose. A brief summary of the results are described below, however the technical report can be requested [...]

Maths Week or Maths Weak?

Tagged as: TriMaths

30 August 2011 News

National Mathematics week was held recently; from 1-5 August. “The main purpose of Mathematics Week is to highlight the beauty, utility and applicability of mathematics and also to dispel the myth that this subject is difficult, cold, abstract, and only accessible to a few,” says Prof Johann Engelbrecht, Executive Director of the South African Maths [...]

CPD Points for Accreditation Training

Tagged as: accreditation training, CEU, CPD

12 July 2011 News

To any prospective trainees out there, here is some good news for you: In April this year, the Professional Board for Psychology moved over to accept the HPCSA’s recommended CPD process. This means that the type of accreditation and method of applying for accreditation as Service Providers is now aligned across the Professional Boards. It [...]

Choosing Your Career

Tagged as: career assessment

30 June 2011 News

It’s that time of the year when the Grade 10 to 12 pupils start to face some important decisions that need to be made. They have to consider subject choice, possible careers to pursue and which institution or course would be best suited to them. This process is stressful for children and their parents. Parents [...]

Updated Norms For Ravens Progressive Matrices

Tagged as: Ravens Progressive Matrices, RPM

30 June 2011 Product related

Please note that we have updated South African Ravens Progressive Matrices norms available for all those clients who often use this assessment. For more information contact our research department at research@jvrafrica.co.za or our assessment advisors at jvr-pas@jvrafrica.co.za

EQ2.0 Information Sessions Dates

Tagged as: EQ2.0

27 June 2011 Events

To all our EQ-i users out there, By now you’ve probably heard that the EQ-i has undergone a revision and a new version of the popular assessment will soon be available. Every good assessment should beregularly researched and updated, and this is what MHS did with the EQ-i. Read more about the EQ2.0 and some FAQ’s in this [...]

[Research participation opportunity] 2 New ability assessments

1 June 2011 Product related

The JVR research team has developed two new assessments, the first being a comprehensive measure of verbal ability and the second of numerical ability. Over the years, we have come to realise that our clients are in need of assessments able to measure specific abilities and skills not necessarily tapped by assessments of general mental [...]

[Research participation opportunity] New criterion-related personality scale

1 June 2011 Product related

We would like to extend a warm invitation to you to take part in a research project concerning a new, locally developed, criterion-related personality scale. We believe that this research will be of interest and value to you. For us to be able to obtain a large enough group to complete the questionnaire, your participation [...]

[Research participation opportunity] MBTI Afrikaanse weergawe.

31 May 2011 Product related

Ons wil jou hartelik uitnooi om deel te neem aan ‘n navorsingsprojek wat daarop gemik is om die MBTI vraelys in Afrikaans te vertaal. Ons glo dat die navorsing vir jou van belang mag wees, en wil jou daarom aanmoedig om deel te neem aan die belangrike projek. Die toets behoort tussen 30 en 40 [...]

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