Birkman is a behavioral professional assessment, devised by Dr. Roger Birkman in 1951, during the World War. Dr. Roger noticed the individual differences of personal perceptions that affected the pilots' performance at the time. What inspired him to developed the instrument to measure human characteristics he saw influencing behaviors, motivations, and perceptions throughout the positive psychology approach, as opposed to the traditional psychology model approach.
Millions of people and employees of thousands of companies completed the Birkman assessment, which resulted more than 50 million reports. Birkman assessment is available in more than 23 languages, and has been used by more than 400 government agencies, organizations and private companies in more than 15 different sectors around the world.
Credibility and Reliability
Validity studies have been conducted comparing to other assessments to prove the efficacy of Birkman.
Birkman scales have test-retest reliability averaging 0.85 and internal consistency reliability averaging 0.80
Birkman system checks and validates the beneficiaries' response, and if the beneficiary's answers are not confirmed as accurate, its reports are not issued unless approved by Birkman's Quality Department. Completing a one-time Birkman assessment does not require it to be returned again, so we call it “one-time investment.”
Birkman Elements and Components
Birkman measures a number of key elements of the personality, you can learn about it through this video:
