College Students Choose Highlands!

The key difference between the Highlands Ability Battery™ and other popular assessment tools – MBTI, Strong, True Colors, DiSC – is that the Battery requires hands-on performance of objective on-line tasks that measure natural abilities, while the other tools are tests of personality type and usually depend on self-report and/or group appraisals. The other tests may offer insights into personality types, but only the Highlands Ability Battery™ measures natural aptitudes or abilities.

 This difference is crucial to students faced with college choices and selection of major subjects; to adults involved in career change; and to organizations designing programs in team building, leadership identification, or leadership development. 

When people are able to compare assessments, they prefer the Highlands Ability Battery™ to the other tests as a measure of their abilities and as a guide to effective career planning.

In 2003, 21 graduate students in Counseling and Career Development at Colorado State University were required to complete the Highlands Ability Battery™, MBTI, the Strong Inventory, and True Colors as part of their instruction.

The Highlands Ability Battery was ranked most effective in measuring their natural abilities AND helping them with future career decisions.