Patent ID: 7207804

Claim:
A personnel evaluation system comprising: at least one multimedia computer for transceiving audio and visual stimuli for a subject; a storage memory of said system for storing application modules; at least one central processing unit within said multimedia computer to administer said application modules to said subject, perform analysis of input data, and cause said multimedia computer to transmit said stimuli; said application modules comprising at least one software application for utilizing multimedia technology to assess in a clinically valid manner respective skills and abilities of the subject which cannot be assessed by non-multimedia test content, said skills and abilities applicable to work-related tasks; a software application in which stimuli are revealed progressively to a subject and the subject identifying the emerging stimuli as early as he or she can to determine the precise level of detail required by the subject to correctly identify the stimuli, the identification made by the subject being evaluated; and wherein said storage memory of said system includes a scoring system derived from database statistics calculated for a representative sample of a specific population of subjects being tested and a predetermined pass/fail threshold for each said application module based on updated database statistics reflecting past test results of prior subjects in a similar job role or in a role requiring similar skills or abilities.