Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Assessed: Assessment platform combining personality, motivation, ability and situational judgement.
Rubric: version 1. Search protocol applied and all sources accessed: 2026-09-22.
Documented 0, partial 5, absent 3, of eight criteria. This records what is published about the validity and fairness of the scores. It is not an assessment of the product, the model or the underlying science.
| # | Criterion | Level |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | Technical manual or validity report publicly available without a sales conversation | A |
| C2 | Validity coefficients reported with sample size and uncertainty | P |
| C3 | Adverse impact reported by named subgroup | P |
| C4 | Scored construct named and defined, not described only by outcome | P |
| C5 | Evidence of comparability across languages, versions or delivery modes | A |
| C6 | Human oversight documented, with a candidate route to contest a score | A |
| C7 | Independent review named and the reviewer identified | P |
| C8 | Reliability reported, and reported by group | P |
C1. Technical manual or validity report publicly available without a sales conversation
Absent.
No public source was found for this criterion by the search protocol.
Pages examined include https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
Figures are published on the science page without a source document behind them.
C2. Validity coefficients reported with sample size and uncertainty
Partial.
"PQ correlation – 0.41 correlation with task performance"; "criterion-related Validity – BPS standard: at or above 0.25 correlation is significant".
Source: https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
No sample size and no interval are reported.
C3. Adverse impact reported by named subgroup
Partial.
"Adverse impact studies to monitor fairness across demographics"
Source: https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
No figures and no named groups are published.
C4. Scored construct named and defined, not described only by outcome
Partial.
"personality and motivation scales" and "Cognitive assessments"
Source: https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
Scale families are named rather than individual constructs.
C5. Evidence of comparability across languages, versions or delivery modes
Absent.
No public source was found for this criterion by the search protocol.
Pages examined include https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
C6. Human oversight documented, with a candidate route to contest a score
Absent.
No public source was found for this criterion by the search protocol.
Pages examined include https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
C7. Independent review named and the reviewer identified
Partial.
"developed in alignment with the EFPA Review Model standards"; ISO 27001:2022 certification "subject to annual audits".
Source: https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
Alignment with a review model is stated and no reviewer is named. ISO 27001 is an information-security standard rather than a review of measurement quality.
C8. Reliability reported, and reported by group
Partial.
"Cronbach’s alpha ~0.80-0.84 for our personality and motivation scales"; "Test-retest Reliability – PQ ~0.78, Cognitive assessments ~0.77".
Source: https://www.sovaassessment.com/our-science (accessed 2026-09-22).
No sample size and no breakout by group or language is reported.
Absent records the outcome of the published search protocol on 2026-09-22. Where a source is supplied that the search did not reach, the cell is re-scored under the corrections policy, with the date of the change recorded and the previous level retained.
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