Essential Aspects of our Work Capacity Assessment Systems:

• CRITERION REFERENCED. Criterion referenced tests use objective standards and the individual is required to demonstrate abilities of a particular or general vocational level. That is why criterion referenced testing typically do a better job of identifying Work Capacity abilities then norm referenced testing. Test results on all our systems indicate what individuals can do in the domain or field of “Work”. They measure capacities to (successfully) meet predetermined work related objectives.
• FUNCTIONAL SKILL APPROACH. Performance criteria are specified and indicate skills that are significant and functional as they are based on the skills required “on the job”.
• MULTI-DIMENSIONAL. Test results are based on multiple interactive Cognitive, Physical, Mental and Adaptive Characteristics of the individual, as it is in the real life of work.
• WORK SIMULATION. The content of all our systems represents the vocational domain. Test tasks are practical, meaningful and structured. All tasks have a beginning and an end. Administration criteria are clear defined and objective.

Several ways of using our systems

WORK CAPACITY RELATED

• To indicate the general or specific Work Capacities of an individual.
• To define the content of work hardening programs.

THERAPY RELATED

• To diagnose (eventual) interventions or treatments for “return to work”.
• To document results of interventions or treatments.

INSURANCE RELATED

• As part of a decision making process to determine the level of impairment or disability.

All our products (manuals, written and verbal instructions, reports) are available in the English, German and Dutch language (the Ergos Work Simulator also in the French and Spanish language) and can be made available in other languages.