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Uchida-Kraepelin Psychodiagnostic Test (the UK test)
What is the Uchida-Kraepelin Psychodiagnostic Test (the UK test)?
- Building up on researches made by E. Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, Yuzaburo Uchida, a Japanese psychologist, developed this test after years of studies of its methodology and validity.
What good does use of the UK test do?
- While many railways are facing shortage of human resources, the test helps you pick up quality human assets.
- The test provides some helpful information on what position each of your existing employees should serve. This way, it helps you improve productivity.
- All that an examinee does is to make many additions of single-digit integers. So, no linguistic element affects the test results. (There are English and Chinese editions also available.) Also, the test takes only 50 minutes or so to complete. A large number of examinees can take the test at the same time.
What are the advantages of the UK test?
- In most other aptitude tests, it takes multiple sub-tests to measure an examinee’s “intelligence,” “personality,” and so on. The UK test, however, measures two characteristics simultaneously – an examinee’s “capabilities in work (activity)” and “characteristics of using such capabilities.” Furthermore, the test is not of a format of the examinee answering questions. Thus, an examinee is unable to deliberately manipulate his/her test results, which is a favorable characteristic.
What does an examinee do?
- He/She does simple additions of single-digit integers, moving on to the line immediately below, every one minute. The test takes net 30 minutes, 15 minutes of the first half and another 15 of the last half, with a break in between.
What characteristics of an examinee does the test reveal?
- What images of examinees’ characteristics does the test reveal? There is a famous fairy tale of a race between “the Tortoise and the Hare.” If they take the UK test, they can come up with results shown below:
- The famous fable of the Tortoise and the Hare reveals the two animals’ different running speeds and behaviors. Compare the race to the top of a mountain to the UK test. Let the two animals run the race. The final win and lose are not determined by their amount of work alone, but rather by their personalities and behavioral characteristics (working curves and errors). The UK test evaluates the whole picture of each examinee’s abilities, personality, and behavioral characteristics, as he/she performs a modeled job of addition.
Who is the introduction company?
- Manufacturing industry Ota Technology Research Institute, FUJIFILM, Dai Nippon Printing, JFE Steel, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Toyota Motor, Seiko Epson, etc.
- Wholesale · Retail, Food & Beverage Isetan Mitsukoshi, SKYLARK GROUP, Co-op Co-op
- Finance / insurance industry Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank, Okazaki Shinkin Bank, Latin America Shinkin Bank, etc.
- Service industry and others Integrated security guarantee, Amazon Japan Logistics, Yamato Transport, Konoike Transportation, Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu (foreign technical intern trainee), etc.
- Foreign countries In Thailand it is also used for safety management in high-speed railway BTS.
