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| The Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation is a nonprofit scientific research and educational organization with two primary commitments: to study human abilities and to provide people with a knowledge of their aptitudes that will help them in making decisions about school and work. Since 1922, hundreds of thousands of people have used our aptitude testing service to learn more about themselves and to derive more satisfaction from their lives. Read our brochure |
Aptitudes are natural talents, special abilities for doing, or learning to do, certain kinds of things. Manual dexterity, musical ability, spatial visualization, and memory for numbers are examples of such aptitudes. In a comprehensive battery of tests available only through the Foundation, these and many other aptitudes are measured. These measured traits are highly stable over long-term periods.
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Our newest Bulletin has been published. It features the story of a family who has used aptitude testing to help guide their career choices for three generations. It updates the progress of our sMRI study as well. Earlier bulletins are available on our recent news page. Our New York office began a relationship with the Partnership for Student Advancement, a New York City non-profit organization. more... In her column, Work & Family, published in The Wall Street Journal on August 9, 2007, Sue Shellenbarger mentions the Foundation as a resource for students making career choices.
Steve Greene, Director of our New York office, recently participated in a panel discussion sponsored by JETS, the Junior Engineering Technical Society, about the spatial visualization aptitude in the engineering profession. Click here to listen to a podcast of this session. JETS has also published an article about aptitudes and the engineering profession. |
