1. How to Interpret the O*NET Ability Profiler Results
An O*NET Academy Briefing
How to Interpret the O*NET Ability Profiler Results
Dr. Janet E. Wall
Senior Trainer, ONET Academy

2. Relax and Enjoy Session will be recorded and archived
Can listen to the session again at
Can download slides
Come in with questions as you have them

3. Part 3 of 3
3 part series
Introduction to the O*NET Tools and the Ability Profiler (30 July)
How to Administer the Ability Profiler (31 July)
How to Interpret the Ability Profiler (1 August)
After attending all 3 sessions – certificate of completion
Any session stands on its own

4. Session 3 - Learning Objectives
Overview the Ability Profiler (AP)
Describe contents of the AP Score Report
Review percentiles
Overview norms
Overview how AP results are matched to occupations
Review occupational information using O*NET Online
Discuss example profile

5. Three Instruments O*NET Interest Profiler
O*NET Work Importance Locator/Profiler
O*NET Ability Profiler

6. O*NET Career Exploration Tools
Format
Purpose
O*NET Interest Profiler
Paper/Pencil
Work-related Interests
Standalone or Network
O*NET Work Importance Locator
What is Important in a Job (Values)
O*NET Work Importance Profiler
O*NET Ability Profiler
What Individual Can Do Well (Ability)

7. Proper Use Developed only for career exploration, career counseling
Not for job selection or selection into job training programs
Administered to 1 or more persons
Paper/pencil only

8. Ability Profiler Overview – 11 tests
Computation
Arithmetic Reasoning
Vocabulary
Name Comparison
Object Matching
Three Dimensional Space
Mark Making
Place
Turn
Assemble
Disassemble

9. Relationship Between Measured Constructs and AP Exercises
What is Measured/Reported
Exercise/Subtest
Verbal Ability
Vocabulary
Arithmetic Reasoning
Computation
Spatial Ability
Three-Dimensional Space
Form Perception
Object Matching
Clerical Perception
Name Comparison
Motor Coordination
Mark Making
Manual Dexterity
Place
Turn
Finger Dexterity
Assemble
Disassemble

10. Tests Administered and Scored

11. Options
Hand data entry program can be downloaded from the website
Scoring Program and User’s Guide found on website

12. Score Report (1) graphic, numerical and verbal information
Person’s scores are compared to general working population – the norm group.
graphic, numerical and verbal information

13. Score Report (2) Reports the Constructs Measured – not the subtests
Percentiles

14. What is a Percentile?

15. No number correct; number attempted
Score Report (3)
Number Correct of Total Items
No number correct; number attempted

16. Score Report (4)
Note

17. Norms
Based on a sample of 4000 people selected to reflect the distributions of workers in five occupational categories as per the US Census Bureau
Professional and Semi-professional
Clerical, Sales, and Kindred Workers
Craftsmen, Foreman, and Kindred Workers
Operatives and Kindred Workers
Laborers (except farm and mine)

18. General Working Population
Norms developed in 1950s
Studies show Means and SDs stable over time (USES Test Report No 148, 1984)
Sample called the General Working Population

19. General Working Population (2)
Sample selected to represent the percent of population by occupational groupings
Age Range = years
Mean Education = 11 years
Males, 10.2
Females, 11.7
Gender
Males, 46%
Females, 54%
Supplemented by many additional studies to include high school students
See General Aptitude Test Battery, Development Report, Section III for details

20. Linking GATB Norms to the AP
Equating study performed between GATB and AP
Results sufficiently similar between GATB and AP so that the general working population norms could be used (Segall and Monzon, 1995)

21. Score Report (5)

22. Score Report (6)

23. Score Report (7)

24. Selecting a Job Zone

25. Occupational Reports
Five occupational listings are generated, one for each job zone

26. Job Zone 1 Occupations

27. Job Zone 2 Occupations

28. Job Zone 3 Occupations

29. Job Zone 4 Occupations

30. Job Zone 5 Occupations

31. Match Profile to Occupational Information (1)
Occupational Ability Profiles (OAPs) were created for each of the 950+ O*NET occupations (see available development report for more detail)
Ability scores of job incumbents (1000+ jobs) along with information from the DOT (e.g., data, people things; SVP) were used to estimate the 9 ability scores for each occupation
Occupation profiles were converted to the existing O*NET/SOC classification system

32. Match Profile to Occupational Information (2)
Person’s ability profile is matched to occupational profile
Using index of similarity (correlation)
Shape of the profile matters, not the level or percentile
Minimum of 10 occupations are generated for each job zone
up to 25 if they are “strong matches”
correlation cutoff depends on number of AP subtests taken

33. Score Report (8)
Based on list of occupations, the client selects one job from Job Zone 1 and two from Job Zone 3
Fire Inspector
Retail Salesperson
Advertising Sales Agent

34. Exploring an Occupation
Select occupation to explore
Example: Fire Inspectors, Job Zone 3
Go to O*NET ONLINE

44. Sample Report -
Joe Luwis

45. Discussion – Joe Luwis

46. Questions/Comments

47. O*NET AP Administrators Training Tools available on O*NET Academy
Online Self-Assessment Quiz !
Gauge your understanding of what it takes to successfully administer the Ability Profiler .
Downloadable Lunch and Learn Training Packet
Includes PowerPoint Slides, FAQs, Administrator Checklist, and Scenarios for Group Discussion
Check out for more information

48. Supporting Webinars
How to Download and Use the O*NET Interest Profiler and Work Importance Profiler
Overview of the O*NET Ability Profiler
How to Administer the O*NET Ability Profiler
How to Interpret the Ability Profiler
O*NET for Job Seekers and Students
New Enhancements to O*NET
O*NET Tools for School Counselors
O*NET Tools for Military in Transition
Links between Occupations, Education, and Pay