Scoring Instructions

Scoring Instructions

A. The General Tendencies questionnaire you have just completed was developed by Goldberg in 1999 and is called the International Personality Item Pool Big Five Markers Test. It measures your level of extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.

Reverse Scoring: For questions 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 44, 46, 49, give yourself 1 point if you circled 5, 2 points if you circled 4, 3 points if you circled 3, 4 points if you circled 2, and 5 points if you circled 1.

For all the other questions, give yourself 5 points if you circled 5, 4 points if you 4, 3 points if you circled 3, 2 points if you circled 2, and 1 point if you circled 1.

ExtraversionItemYour Score

1______

Reverse Scored6______

11______

Reverse Scored16______

21______

Reverse Scored26______

31______

Reverse Scored36______

41______

Reverse Scored46______

Total Extraversion______

AgreeablenessItemYour Score

Reverse Scored2______

7______

Reverse Scored12______

17______

Reverse Scored22______

27______

Reverse Scored32______

37______

42______

47______

Total Agreeableness ______

ConscientiousnessItemYour Score

3______

Reverse Scored8______

13______

Reverse Scored18______

23______

Reverse Scored28______

33______

Reverse Scored38______

43______

48______

Total Conscientiousness______

Emotional StabilityItemYour Score

Reverse Scored4______

9______

Reverse Scored14______

19______

Reverse Scored24______

29______

Reverse Scored34______

Reverse Scored39______

Reverse Scored44______

Reverse Scored49______

Total Emotional Stability______

Openness to ExperienceItemYour Score

5______

Reverse Scored10______

15______

Reverse Scored20______

25______

Reverse Scored30______

35______

40______

45______

50______

Total Openness to Experience______

Locate your relative scores on the personality dimensions based on the scores obtained by other MGTC24 students like yourself in previous years by using the following percentile information. Determine the percentile you fall in.

B. Feelings about your presentation

1. For items 2 and 3, reverse the scores, so 1 = 5, 2 = 4, 3 = 3, 4 = 2, 5 = 1.
2. Write down the revised scores for Item 2 here ___ and Item 3 here ____
3. Add the scores for the items in each factor, to create the total score.

• Higher scores indicate higher levels of anxiety.

Locate your relative scores on the anxiety types based on the scores obtained by other MGTC24 students like yourself in previous years by using the following percentile information. Determine the percentile you fall in.

C. Feelings about your use of the English language.

1. Reverse score items: 2, 3, 5, 11, 13. So, 1 = 5, 2 = 4, 3 = 3, 4 = 2, 5 = 1.
2. Write down the reversed scores for:

Item 2 _____

Item 3 _____

Item 5 _____

Item 11 _____

Item 13 _____

c. Now, sum all scores to create a total (including items not reverse scored). ______

• Your score could range between 16 and 80.
• Higher scores reflect the perceptions of a higher level of proficiency in your use of the English language.

D. Feelings about expressing yourself

a.Add the scores of column A

b.Add the scores of column B

c.Then compute the formula:

Total score = 36 – (Total A) + (Total B).

• Higher scores indicate greater comfort in expressing yourself.

E. Confidence about speaking in public

• Sum all items from 1 to 11.
• Your score could range from 0 to 1100.
• Total Score______
• Higher scores indicate higher levels of confidence for speaking in public.

Locate your relative scores on the feelings about English, expressing yourself and your self confidence types based on the scores obtained by other MGTC24 students like yourself in previous years by using the following percentile information. Determine the percentile you fall in.