Reliability and Validity

The 5 Dynamics Starting Point Assessment has been thoroughly researched by third parties for validity and reliability.

This instrument was created over a 25-year period of research and development, and has been given to over 30,000 people. It uses the method of paired comparisons, a widely accepted and well researched statistical technique.

Over the years it has been continually refined and improved to produce the current Internet-delivered version. One goal of the refinement has been to shorten the duration of the assessment while increasing reliability and validity. Consequently, the base assessment has been reduced from 100-plus to 18 items. With each reduction, reliability and validity increased. Currently on a Likert Scale of 1 (Lowest) to 7 (Maximum), respondents report a face validity of 5.8 with a confidence level of .05.

Cross-correlations with other instruments are generally at the 85% level.The assessment has been compared with high degrees of correlation, to the results of Julian Rotter's I/E Test, Rokeach's Open and Closed Mind Test, Gittinger and Saunders's PAS, the Raven Progressive Matrices, Loye's HCP Profile Test, and Miller's "Brain Style Inventory." As the assessment was used to with public school teachers in the State of Maine, the State successfully validated it with numerous studies.

The underlying methodology is so different from other instruments that an international patent application has been filed.

Most recently, a four-year educational study funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Irvine and Packard Foundations, has documented an extraordinarily high success rates for a program based on 5 Dynamics with high- and at-risk students at a California community college. This involved the individual and learning functions, as well as teaming tools. the program will be expanded throughout the state in 2008.