David Lockwood

Self-Assessment Tools

Whole-Person Assessment

Professional self-assessment is an evaluation of oneself and one’s actions, tendencies, attitudes, learning tasks, and job performance in relation to an objective standard. Social psychology defines self-assessment as the process of observing oneself in order to assess aspects that are important to one’s identity. Self-assessment can improve personal certainty but can also affect self-esteem.  Spiritually, I believe self-assessment helps determine calling, gifts, and understanding of where personal human limitations end and divine grace begins.

I’ve seen an array of personal assessments employed for learning styles and academic course studies, career placement, periodic employee and even clinical evaluations. I haven’t previously seen a holistic battery of assessments that when compared together provide a reflection of the whole person in relation to life purpose and spiritual assignment. A working list of helpful assessments is grouped below, along with my personal results. Reviewing these tests together 1) provides me with greater clarity and self-awareness, 2) builds confidence in my God-given, personal identity, and 3) prioritizes life-planning based on what’s best for me, and 4) helps me establish healthy boundaries, reducing a tendency to conform to external comparison or go where I’m not gifted, and 5) empowers me to seek support for personal and professional weak areas.

Spirit

  • Spiritual Gifts Report: Gives you a profile of your God-given spiritual gifts. Helps you discover and exercise those gifts for maximum fulfillment and minimum frustration in Christian life and ministry. Assessment website. My results.
  • Christian Character Index: Assess your character strengths and weaknesses. Assessment website. My results.
  • Obstacles to Growth Survey: Evaluate four obstacles that may be hindering your spiritual growth. Assessment website. My results.
  • Love for God Scale: An estimate based on the Great Commandment. Assessment website. My results.

Soul

  • Four Temperament Quiz: Draws out your natural, inborn tendencies toward emotional and behavioral reaction. Assessment website. My results.
  • DISC Assessment: Determines DISC type and personality profile based on the factors of Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. Assessment website. My results.
  • Big Five Personality Test: Offers a concise measure of the five major factors of personality, as well as the six facets that define each factor. Assessment website. My results.
  • 16 Personalities Test: Get an accurate description of who you are and why you do things the way you do. Based on Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator. Assessment website. My results.
  • Learning Style Inventories: Includes Left Brain / Right Brain Orientation, Kolb Learning Style, Best and Worst Times, and VARK Learning Modality Tests. Inventories Report. Summaries here.
  • Political Compass Report: Helps determine your perspective on the socio-economic and political spectrum. Assessment website. My results.

Body

  • I employ Navy Physical Readiness Tests (PRT). Standards are included below. Assessment website.

Marriage

  • SYMBIS – Save Your Marriage Before It Starts: Gives a personalized road map to making your marriage everything it was meant to be. Assessment website. 
  • Focus on Marriage Assessment: Designed to evaluate the strength of 12 essential traits of your marriage, strengths and weaknesses. Assessment website. 
  • 5 Love Languages: Helps you strengthen and improve your relationship one language at a time. Assessment website. My results.

Career

  • CliftonStrengths Assessment: Uncovers your unique rank order of 34 CliftonStrengths themes. These are your talent DNA, explaining the ways you most naturally think, feel and behave. Assessment website. My results.
  • StandOut Report: Follows StrenghtsFinder, providing special attention to a person’s Top 2 Roles as most important in determining comparative advantage; a Situational Judgement Test which presents a series of situations and asks what you would do in those situations. Assessment website. My results.
  • Enneagram: A useful guide on your journey toward self-development, relationship building, conflict resolution and the improvement of team dynamics. Assessment website. My results.