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Understanding Assessments

How skill assessments work, the two kinds, and what your results are used for.

Assessments are how StackFactor learns where you are today in each skill your role needs. Your results reveal your skill gaps, and your development plan is built to close them, so you never have to relearn what you already know.

You assess your own skills, one assessment for each skill in your roles.

Two kinds of assessments

Depending on the skill, you can choose either kind, or the quiz is required:

  • Self-Assessment — takes just a few minutes. You review what's expected at each proficiency level and choose the level that matches your hands-on experience.
  • Quiz — proves what you know. You answer questions on the skill's microskills, one level at a time, starting with the basics.

What an assessment asks

  • Experience — how much experience you have with the skill, and when you last used it.
  • Proficiency — your level, from the self-assessment, the quiz, or both.
  • Interest — how much you want to grow in this skill, from Avoid to Pursue.

Your results

Your proficiency is one of: None, Fundamental Awareness, Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert. If you have both a self-assessment level and a quiz level, your assessed proficiency is the lower of the two.

  • Your role sets a target level for each skill. The difference between that target and your result is your skill gap, which your development plan is built to close.
  • Reaching a new level earns you an achievement on your profile's Feed, which you can share.
  • You can see your results in reports under ReadinessMy Stack.

Keeping assessments current

Skills are reassessed regularly, and your role sets how often. When a skill is due, you'll get a reassessment item in your To Do list, and the skill's card will say its assessment is overdue.

TIPS
  • Answer honestly. An accurate starting point means your plan skips what you already know.
  • Depending on your organization's settings, your manager may need to approve an assessment before it counts.

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