The science & evidence

Credible enough for a psychologist. Clear enough for a teenager.

Every profile is built on established, peer-reviewed frameworks and modern study science — then overseen by registered psychologists, with family profiles individually reviewed before release.

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Personality

Big Five / OCEAN — the consensus model in academic psychology. (We avoid MBTI-style type tools.)

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Interests

RIASEC / Holland — the most widely validated model of vocational interests.

Character strengths

VIA strengths + adaptability — a strengths-first, non-deficit lens.

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Cognition

Short screening tasks modelled on recognised paradigms (digit span, Corsi, matrix reasoning) — to inform study strategy, not to diagnose.

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Study science

Retrieval practice, spacing, dual coding and metacognition — among the most robust findings in learning science.

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Clinically overseen

Every profile is built and overseen by registered psychologists — family profiles individually reviewed, and for school cohorts, flagged profiles reviewed before release. A learning profile — not a clinical diagnosis.

What we deliberately avoid

Not “learning styles.”

The idea that matching teaching to a ‘visual / auditory / kinaesthetic’ style improves learning has been repeatedly tested and is not supported by the evidence (Pashler et al., 2008; Willingham). Some tools still sort students this way — we don’t.

We measure how memory and attention actually work, then build strategy from that. We also avoid labels, deficit framing, and ATAR-style score-chasing.
Validation

Building the evidence base, in the open

We’re running a staged validation program — reliability, construct validity, norms and outcomes — ideally with a university partner under ethics approval.

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