Assessment of Potential and Trainability

Elements of Potential and Trainability Assessed by LAB

The ability to acquire a new skill differs from person to person. Through research, Lead the Field has concluded that certain basic skills are inherent and should already have been stimulated and developed once a child has reached school going age. It then follows that these skills should be present in an adult. These skills can, however, be developed through correct guidance/stimulation.

These basic abilities are prerequisites for effective, successful further training of people and can be measured by LAB, irrespective of age or scholastic development, language, culture, etc.
The abilities are: Eyesight, Hearing Ability (Physical Attributes), Eye-Hand Co-ordination, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Visual Insight, Visual Quantitative Perception, Long Term Memory, Seeing the Whole Picture ("Gestalt"). These are the “Non-verbal Skills” and are Trainability Indicators.
The following list gives more detailed descriptions of these elements.

1. Eyesight and Hearing for candidates to be able to perform; it is essential that he/she has normal hearing and eyesight for some tasks in the work place. Good eyesight and hearing is of critical importance.
The LAB uses a Schnellen Chart for eyesight and an Audiometer for assessing hearing ability.

2. Non-Verbal Skills (Learning Ability)

Eye-Hand Coordination: 66 – 100% indicates the applicant is well suited to perform a hands-on operation such as writing, hand crafts, driving, front-end loader, forklift, etc. The nearer to 100% for this element, the better the person will perform.
Short and Long Term Memory: The highest scorer nearest to 100% will remember the material/instruction learnt during training best.
Visual Perception: Determines the candidates’ visual speed and accuracy and ability to distinguish between similarities and differences.
Visual Insight: How well does the candidate grasp what he/she is shown and the ability to recognise an object or situation when it is viewed from different positions or angles.
Quantitative Perception: How well can the candidate discriminate between quantitative concepts like large – small, far – near, many – few. The higher the LAB score the better the judgment.
Seeing the whole Picture (Gestalt): The ability to project three dimensional objects, to recreate a design from the original, and repeat what has been taught.

These aspects of the individual are rated separately and as a group, to provide a composite percentage so that a profile or a signature of a particular skill can be obtained by assessing a highly efficient operator, say driver, front-end loader, etc. and this profile can be used as a benchmark to measure other candidates against.

The Non-Verbal Skills (Potential) Results

The non-verbal skills results will give a good indication of the candidates’ ability to learn, and thus the potential for successful training.

The individual ranking score is based on the individual’s average score obtained in the seven non-verbal skills assessed. (The overall average ranking score of the group tested is also shown) The assessment results give a clear indication of which candidates should be grouped together for training according to their abilities. Candidates are grouped into three categories using this ranking:
65 – 100%: above average learning potential
35-64 %: average learning potential
0-34 %: below average learning potential

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