Abnotivity Level Assessment Test

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Example Questions From the Test
- Yes
- Rather yes than no
- Rather no than yes
- No
- Yes
- More yes than no
- More no than yes
- No
- Yes
- More yes than no
- More no than yes
- No
Abnotivity Level Assessment Test - Description and methodology of the test
Educators who want to examine how their professional attitudes may shape classroom relationships can use the Abnotivity Level Assessment Test as a focused self-report exercise. It offers an abnotivity assessment of tendencies connected with teaching style, responsiveness, creativity, tolerance, and conflict handling. The result is intended to help a respondent notice patterns in professional conduct and consider where constructive habits or interpersonal risks may deserve closer attention.
What This Assessment Explores
The catalogue defines abnotivity as a tendency toward negative or destructive behaviour in professional activity, examined through teaching situations. As a questionnaire about teacher abnotivity, it uses positive and negative professional situations to infer one tendency, not separate subscales. Higher abnotivity reflects more negative or destructive professional behaviour.
Items address student needs, learning, shared responsibility, and fair responses to weak performance. The result describes a pattern, not one act.
The situations used as indicators include:
- Curiosity and development indicate interest in new knowledge.
- Student-centred practice indicates attention to individual needs and independence.
- Relational tolerance indicates ease with differences and difficult interactions.
- Professional flexibility indicates readiness for creative methods, discussion, and evaluation.
The catalogue reports Abnotivity Level (A), with Higher abnotivity (0-3), Moderate abnotivity (4-7), and Lower abnotivity (8-10). Higher numerical scores indicate a lower level of abnotivity.
Methodology and Evidence Base
The illustrated questions use ordered choices: Yes, intermediate options such as Rather yes than no and Rather no than yes, and No.
The questionnaire displays a 0-10 result, but it does not document how responses are converted into that score or indicate published norms for the online result. Interpret the displayed band rather than infer a scoring formula. The abnotivity test for teachers is a structured reflection on professional tendencies.
Its named source is the Abnotivity Level Method (Adusheva & Kashapov, 2003). The 2019 work discusses abnotivity in relation to teachers’ professional thinking; creativity and conflict themes come from the questionnaire items, not separately validated online subscales.
The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that framework, not an adaptation of that instrument, and its score does not establish equivalence to the published instrument’s norms or validation procedures.
Self-report can reflect workload, mood, self-awareness, and the wish to appear competent. The result is most useful with observed behaviour and feedback from students or colleagues; it is not a diagnosis and cannot establish a stable trait from one sitting.
- Adusheva, Yu. A., and Kashapov, M. M. (2003). How to Determine the Abnotivity of a University Teacher. In Proceedings of the All-Russian Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of Yaroslavl State University Named After P. G. Demidov, pp. 71-73. Yaroslavl: Yaroslavl State University.
- Adusheva, Yu. A. (2004). Psychological Features of a University Teacher’s Abnotivity: Research and Development. Yaroslavl: Yaroslavl State University, 72 pp.
- Kashapov, M. M. (2019). Abnotivity as a Characteristic of a Teacher’s Professional Thinking. Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Philosophy, Psychology, Pedagogy, 29(2), 137-147. 10.35634/2412-9550-2019-29-2-137-147
- Kashapov, M. M. (2006). Psychology of a Professional’s Creative Thinking. Moscow: PER SE, 688 pp. ISBN 5-9292-0161-7
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