When a student completes the Highlands Ability Battery, she receives a special student report. The report is different from the adult report in several respects. It is specially designed to address the student’s need to make important choices among options in study and career. The report relates the student’s ability to perform a particular worksample to her score on the worksample.
The student’s score on a particular worksample shows the ease with which she can perform the task measured by the worksample. Because the worksample is timed, the student’s score will show whether the worksample was more or less easy to perform. A student who finds a particular task easy to do will be happiest and most productive in work requiring that task. A student who finds a particular task relatively difficult is able to perform the task, given enough time, but will probably be more comfortable and satisfied in some other task which comes more easily to her.
When a student knows and understands her true abilities, she is more likely to pursue studies and a career which will produce the greatest measure of satisfaction and stability throughout her life.
