EOS potential analysis
EOS potential analysis is a computer-based test system for determining learning competencies and learning potentials. The potential analysis measures the personal level of development of certain skills that are essential for learning, making decisions and performing.
The test results can help to determine the causes of learning disorders and learning difficulties that are in the area of personality and reveal personal development deficits and action blocks.
By considering the determined learning potential, learning and teaching can be tailored to the needs of the individual.
The basic EOS potential analysis measures various personality functions in a test: Strength of conscious learning and achievement motivation, self-control, self-determination , self-motivation , self-reassurance, action orientation .
In technical terms: EOS potential analysis measures personality skills with cognitive and affective factors, self -control skills , conscious and unconscious motivational factors that are relevant for learning, decision-making, and performance.
The EOS potential analysis
The EOS potential analysis ( E ntwicklungs O rien oriented S ystemdiagnostik) is a psychological diagnostic method described by Julius Kuhl on the basis of his system interaction personality theory was developed. This procedure is used for a better understanding of personal skills and is used in the fields of business and education . In the school area, it is also used to diagnose personal abilities in promoting gifted and gifted children . The process is used in schools in order to be able to effectively convert existing talents into achievements.
From talent to performance - the development-oriented system interaction
According to Kuhl, individual and collective achievements arise in the “sphere of action of goal setting, planning, implementation and success control”. Self-control decides how a person acts within this sphere of activity. It coordinates the underlying needs for power, achievement or relationships with the basic moods and cognitive styles. B. the polarity between 'holistic feeling' or 'analytical thinking' with regard to coping with a current task.
According to Kuhl's system-theoretical approach, selected features of the self-control inventory (SSI) must be sufficiently expressed in order to be able to respond “successfully” to stress and threats. I.e. only behavior in critical situations provides information about a person's basic competencies.
Test procedure
The potential analysis is available in different forms and intensities (60 ° - 360 ° analysis). In its current version, it consists of either a CD or an online test with a large number of questions and tasks (test duration of the 360 ° scan approx. 2 hours). The diagnostic instruments can only be used by psychologists or counselors previously trained in this procedure in a special training program.
To collect data, the test person must first - alone on a computer - work on the questions and tasks that are asked from the CD or the online platform. The results are saved and then sent online to the Institute for Motivation and Personality Development (IMPART GmbH) at the University of Osnabrück , where they are evaluated and sent to the consultant who initiated the diagnosis.
evaluation
This is followed by a detailed individual consultation. Together, strategies are worked out how the person's strengths can be used in order to be able to better use and implement not-so-well-developed self-control skills.
In the pedagogical area, with the systematic consideration of the three motives (performance, relationship and power) as well as the four different learning and work priorities of the sphere of activity (goal setting, planning, implementation and control), the individual needs and abilities of the students are structurally addressed in the consultation.
The class profiles
When the method is used in school classes, so-called class profiles result. From their analysis, strategies emerge that lead to a specific change in the lesson by taking into account the strengths of the class in order to develop the less well-trained areas.
Versions of diagnostics
There are different versions of potential analysis
- for executives
- for salespeople
- for students
- for students
- for educators and lecturers
- for parents
Areas of application
The EOS procedure is used in the diagnosis of disorders in the area of intellectual performance. The highly gifted research shows that the conversion of talent into corresponding performance and the development of latent talent potentials are heavily dependent on self-regulatory competencies, such as: planning ability, strategies for problem solving, stress management, self-motivation, processing of feedback and much more
Highly gifted students have a high degree of self-control skills when they translate their talent into appropriate performance. Students who remain below their ability to perform, so-called underperformers , are, however, characterized by a lower degree of expression in precisely these competencies. With them it often becomes clear that critical life events such as the divorce of the parents or the death of a family member have an inhibiting effect on motivation and self-control.
Kuhl's dynamic, process-oriented personality model makes it clear how these self-regulatory competencies - also to be understood as key qualifications - can be trained so that talent can be converted into performance not only under favorable situational conditions, but also when there are aggravating social factors. This process is very much supported if at the same time the family system comes into view and the parents develop courses of action that sustainably promote their children.
Diagnostics is also used in the coaching and consulting area of executives.
See also: Zurich Resource Model
Evaluation
This procedure is currently being evaluated at several schools in North Rhine-Westphalia with the scientific support of the University of Cologne.
Online version
Since summer 2008 it has been possible to take the test in an online version. The technically obsolete combination of 'CD & diskette' has thus been replaced. This adaptation to the technical development was necessary mainly because fewer and fewer interested parties have a computer with a floppy disk drive.
literature
- E. Aschermann, D. Baspinar: Self- regulation skills and school performance. Faculty of Education, Institute for Psychology at the University of Cologne 2005.
- J. Baumert among others: Ability to self-regulated learning as an interdisciplinary competence. In: OECD PISA Germany. 2001.
- J. Kuhl: Motivation and Personality - Interaction of Mental Systems. Göttingen 2001.
- J. Kuhl, H. Heckhausen: Motivation, Volition and Action. Goettingen 1996.
- JU Martens, J. Kuhl: The art of self-motivation. Stuttgart 2004.
- FE Weinert: Learning Theories and Instructional Models. In: FE Weinert (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Psychology. Pedagogical Psychology, Volume 2, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-8017-0538-2 , pp. 1-48.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The neuropsychological anchoring of inner models, goals and competencies. EOS potential analysis. UNI Göttingen, 2006. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: uni-goettingen.de )