SCHOOL COUNSELING

What are the benefits that are provided by the VOCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE instrument applied in groups in schools and universities that offer the service of counseling to their students?

It provides profound but understandable information for school counselors (sometimes they are neither psychologists or pedagogues), who will be able to easily understand the indicators and make their plannings and interventions with much more effectiveness. They will also be able to immediately identify those students with academic or behavioral risk to timely support them in a preventive or remedial way.

They will count on the most advanced, complete, and reliable psycho-pedagogical study existing nowadays to be applied in SECONDARY, MIDDLE AND HIGHER educational institutions. To create a similar profile from traditional tests available in Latin America (usually old and foreign) more than ten tests would be required, thus multiplying the cost, time, test complexity, and difficulty of interpretation. Instead, this unique study in Latin America achieves it in a single application, giving complete, understandable and congruent results.
The cost is radically reduced (when applied in groups).
DOUBLE BENEFIT: Vocational test and psycho-pedagogical profile.
RESULTS UNDERSTANDABLE BY EVERYONE AND ALREADY-INTERPRETED REPORTS: It provides complete, friendly and strategic information for the academic accompaniment, counseling, educational and/or vocational orientation. The latter includes a report already interpreted with the skills and interests according to high school areas of study; also, it shows the four main vocations with the ideal and alternative careers, and, optionally, the related vocational information. (We also have a version without the vocational analysis).
This instrument gives results for school counselors with guides and advices; each factor includes definition, concurrent features, evaluation and performance criteria, suggested interventions, comments and fields of performance of the competence.

Added value:

Designed and validated for America and Latin America
Gives the most complete profile in the market.
Fast and efficient (solving time: 2:30 hours approx.)
Practical computational application (schools will be able to apply the test without our presence whenever they wants).
Great reliability and easy interpretation.
Quick delivery of results.
Low cost (extraordinary cost-benefit relation).
Adaptable and modifiable to the institutions’ needs.

Some of its benefits:

It provides databases and 180 graphs of each student, as well as comparative statistical information (an average) by group, institutional, and even national in an electronic format (facilitating as well the integration with other data of the institution and/or the student body).
Knowing in a practical, accessible and detailed way cognitive conditions, academic, of personality and of risk of the students or future candidates.
Graphic results can be modified or outlined according to your preferences and needs. (They can also be arranged by any factor and make multidimensional correlation analysis).
Making timely decisions and educational actions oriented to the students’ needs (e.g. propaedeutic courses, counseling, optimizing the curriculum, the teaching-learning process, conferences, workshops, etc.).
Enhance students’ academic performance in a group and/or personalized way according to the identified needs or peculiarities.
Having a complete psycho-pedagogical file of each student to facilitate and optimize interviews and follow ups with students, teachers and academic accompaniment.
Optimizing the admittance process of applicants to junior high and high school (all 7 grades) by obtaining a very complete, profound, fast, and reliable profile from the most advanced psycho-pedagogical assessment instrument, which will leave a good impression of modernity and effectiveness in parents.

Why do institutions need the VOCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE test?

The increasing changes and challenges in the current national and international psychosocial, educational and labor context impel the educational institutions of the 21st century to transcend to new educational paradigms that include self-directed learning, education by international competences, integral development, continuous improvement in educational quality, education for work, and talent development, where vocational guidance and psycho-pedagogical accompaniment require pertinent, congruent, complete, deep, reliable, accessible and practical materials and evaluation profiles as the fundamental basis for Interventions for this change.

Both in the counseling action and the academic accompaniment, having complete, timely, and understandable information about each student’s profile is essential, that is, having a situational framework that allows education professionals (teachers, school counselors, psychologists, and principals) orient, support, and strengthen their intervention, planning and decision making.

Therefore, both counseling and availability of the students’ psychometric file, have been established nowadays as essential requirements for the institutions’ certification. It is in this situation where it is strategic to have an evaluation instrument such as Vocational Intelligence, which provides teachers, school counselors, and principals a greater direction and effectiveness to their valuable job, by providing a comprehensive, reliable, and understandable graphic profile that allows them to know those students who require special support in the development of their competences, the control of their behavior or emotional situation; it as well allows to implement accurate, timely and supported preventive and remedial actions that really favor in depth the academic achievement, metacognition and the integral development of the students. In other way, we will continue to be exposed to only belatedly react when situations hard to correct show up, such as academic backwardness and school dropout.

CHARACTERISTICS

Vocational Intelligence is a Multidimensional Psychometric Test (henceforth MPT) that evaluates 180 intelligence, personality and competences factors (some experts catalog it as the most complete and appropriate counseling instrument in the world). It has the added value of having being designed, validated, and standardized specially for our American and Latin American context with excellent reliability rates. In the year 2007, the company Grupo de Investigación Orienta, developed it specially for the psycho-pedagogical and counseling accompaniment. It is founded in the neurosciences and in more than 30 years of research and technological development; its systematized evaluation process integrates complex computational algorithms and a flexible configuration in its graphs, in such a way that its results can only consider the information each institution determines convenient for their school counselors and students to know, thus pleasing any criterion or policy in this regard.

This tool’s results are graphically shown in an individual or group way, which allows different analytical possibilities (specific, relational, comparative, among others). To date, the MPT has been applied in tens of thousand of candidates and it is used by high-level institutions such as the Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), among other important institutions.

It should be noted that institutions that have implemented their counseling interventions according to the results and findings of the Multidimensional Psychometric Test or MPT, have proven significant improvements in their students’ knowledge such as knowing to be (attitudes and values), knowing to know (concepts and theories), knowing to do (procedural and technical skills), as well as in the macro figures of academic success and terminal efficiency.

By incorporating this world class technology within your educational processes, your institution and the valuable education professionals who comprise it, will position at the forefront in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the TAC's (Learning and Knowledge Technologies); this also implies the commitment of the entire educational community to take full advantage of this technology. School counselors and teachers have a commendable social-formative mission that entails the moral, professional and social commitment to forge better human beings capable of facing and solving the great challenges of the 21st century.

Principals get significant statistical information through the group and institutional charts, which weigh the 180 psycho-pedagogical analyzed factors and the average scores recorded by the evaluated population; this is useful for setting criteria and supporting academic-administrative decision-making, including the possibility of retesting in one or two years to assess progress and the interventions’ effectiveness.
It allows the educational community in general to participate collegially with clear and adequately supported objectives.
School counselors, psychologists and tutors will have a deep psycho-pedagogical but understandable study of the student body’s strengths and opportunity areas in regard to their intellectual, academic, emotional and social competences, both individually and in groups, which will allow them to carry out more objective and effective interventions, to strengthen their ability to help, and to become sensitive about their empathic understanding.

Once each student’s results are available, it is suggested to make a careful observation of the general findings and the graphic profiles to reach an agreement and establish the needs, objectives and lines of action:

Detecting students at academic risk and determine "Who need tutoring/counseling and in what area."
Organizing the preventive and/or remedial interventions in a timely and efficient way.
Channeling students with risk factors (depression, predisposition to addictions, etc., with scores higher than 5) to the psychology area or corresponding departments or to appropriate internal or external instances.
Designing individual and group programs based on the findings and needs, as well as designating ideal counselors for each case according to the MPT profiles, by considering the objectives, contents, activities and the assigned resources.
Building the educational contents and making the instructional design in a more effective way, according to the characteristics, learning styles and real needs of the students revealed by the instrument; likewise, it gives the foundations and directs the determination of teaching techniques, competence based education, performance assessment, and management of knowledge in general.

GUIDELINES FOR SCHOOL COUNSELORS

School counselors require the most advanced instruments to help students face the psycho-social and academic-laboral challenges of the actual world, within a difficult context that imbues them negative behaviors, deteriorating the fulfillment of the institutional goals, and of the individual and collective well-being.

The MPT provides school counselors a comprehensive strategic information platform that allows them to strengthen their scope in their planning and in the individual and group intervention, to better face such challenges and favor the fulfillment of the School Counseling Program.

Locating the strengths, potentialities and opportunity areas of students, to determine preventive or remedial actions that favor, from the root causes, the academic achievement, motivation and overall development of students.
Supporting the cognitive and attitudinal aspects, by seeking to develop the critical and creative capacity of the students and the development of their talents.
Transforming perspective and forward planning with which students address personal, social, economic, institutional and family factors.
Encouraging the development of key competences for life and work such as social, emotional, digital, entrepreneurship, and socio cultural and ecological values.
Knowing the characteristics and needs of the student to improve communication, dynamics, comprehensive strengthening, and the impact of interventions.

This innovative program will comprehensively solve your needs in the counseling and psychological management, as well as in your students’ vocational orientation; it will also favor statistical indicators such as academic achievement, academic success, and terminal efficiency.

We invite all education institutions, public or private, from secondary to higher levels to contact us so that we can give you more details. We can provide you our services in any part of Mexico and some regions in Latin America and the US at a very accessible cost.