THE EFFECTS OF STEM LENGTH AND DIRECTIONS ON SENTENCE COMPLETION RESPONSE

THE EFFECTS OF STEM LENGTH AND DIRECTIONS ON SENTENCE COMPLETION RESPONSE

 

Generally, sentence completion response is one of the most common highly recommended forms of test among others. This is very popular in various fields such as clinical practice, education, research and other industries.   The goal of this test is for the respondent to   trigger the hidden emotion or feelings of the person taking the test.  This kind of test is to evaluate or analyze the personality level of any respondent.  In this regard, the data collected from the test will be reviewed as well as analyze for the evaluation on the psychological state of a person who took the test. The structure of this type of test varies from short and long form.  The short one is normally used for advertising or interview which leads to varied responses from the respondent.  The other one is long structured, this is for clinical used, educational or management application. This is typically goes up to tremendous numbers of practical questions that the respondent should fill up.  The stem leads to a more definite answer, since it provides direction to the respondent.  The question like:  “My first boss is _________.” My most embarrassing moment was ____.”  All these two questions lead the respondent to get a definite answer, and it gives full confidence to the respondent that he or she can answer all the questions that he can think of correctly. 

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Furthermore, the effects of these types of directional questions are very significant on the evaluation and analysis on the personality of the respondent.    The stem length directions on sentence completion needs personal answer, therefore, it can easily reflect on the individual’s real personality through his or her personal experiences and situation.  This even reveals the psychological condition of a person took the exam.  And, if the respondent has a psychological efficiency, let’s say to handle a certain position in an industry he or she is applying for.  So, the effects of Stem Length responses are very vital in the field of business, especially for the applicants who are applying for a job, their capability of handling certain position is being measured through sentence completion responses.  Aside from that, applicant’s attitude and behavior towards work and handling tasks and pressure are being gauged by using evaluation from the sentence completion test.  Normally, human resources department of the company gives a sentence completion test that seems non-sensible to the part of the applicant; but in the HR personnel or clinical view, it is very vital since it gauges the applicant psychological state.  This kind of exam, determines the applicant’s ability in written, analytical, situational and verbal, as well as non verbal qualities of the applicant. All these aspects are very significant in determining if the applicant has the capacity to handle tough job and responsibilities in the company.

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On the other hand, the effects of the stem length in schools and universities; the students’ perception about basic notions and things around them   are being assessed or evaluated by their teachers or professors.  The school wants to measure their personality and how they behave and view things on their own perspective. Maybe, they are not aware of it, but the main goal of this kind of test is to assess if what kind of personality every student has. Specifically, in order to  attain a more definite and more reliable variation  of sentence completion responses from the respondents;  further  investigation on the effect of instruction, scoring system, interpretation based on structure, stem length and directions in the evaluation test  is being done by the experts in the  research field.  In the same way, because of the growing popularity, usefulness and superiority of the sentence completion test; it has been widely approved by most institutions; and regarded it as the most reliable and effective system test in personality assessment.  Lastly, the use of Sentence Completion can measure the mental skills of the students and applicants the way they answered the SCT form.  Similarly, a precise understanding of the specific-item-feature combinations that signal particular skill requirements can help the examiners to figure out the clear evidence about the students’ or applicant’s underlying mastery probability skills.  And, this study also targets the following areas for improvement among the students and working individuals who are applying for a new job; or to some who are first timer in applying for a job.  The SCT helps the students and professionals to improve their vocabulary.  In the same manner, it provides them deeper understanding about the effects of specific feature-manipulations.  In the same way, it also offers them various solution strategies to every analytical problem they encounter.

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 References:  

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(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658210701390982#preview)

 

 

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