Acer for Education, in partnership with My Sports Code, brings you Acer Synapse Behavioural Dominance Profiling (BDP) platform, an affordable solution that allows everyone to perform at their personal peak by distinguishing talents and preferences related to the intellectual, perceptual, emotional and physical ability innately to each person. By combining Acer for Educations’ years of experience in developing technology solutions for learners, classrooms and schools, we now add on a new element in the area of learner development. By bringing together great minds with over 30 years of experience in Behavioural Dominance Profiling, Acer once again takes the lead in helping learners, educators, parents and coaches to gain an intimate understanding of each individual personal profile through Acer Synapse.
Using a set of well curated algorithms, the Acer Synapse BDP tool is able to quickly identify a learners unique blueprint by making use of modern technological methodologies, comparing their genetic preferences and combining that, with our tried and tested formulas. The profiling gives you the information you need to understand and distinguish between your learned behaviour and the strengths and talents you are born with. More so, you will also gain insight into what your unconscious stressors are and how to manage such. Thus, providing you with customized guidance and advice relating to your unique needs in order to assist you to discover yourself within a couple of minutes.
Our mission is to empower people to better understand themselves – assisting them in making better informed life choices – and to better understand other people from Our mission is to empower learners to better understand themselves, for parents to have a better understanding of their children, and educators a better understanding of their student – assisting everyone to make better informed life choices – and to better understand other people from the individual’s predisposition.
Acer Synapse BDP tool will allow individuals and schools the option of selecting a report that best suits your budget.
The process is really simple. Firstly, an individual will take a simple online assessment. Honesty will ensure accuracy and you cannot fail the assessment, after all, you are who you are!
For the free version of the Acer Synapse BDP tool, once the assessment is completed you will be provided with an overview of your profile in a graphical form with highlights of key behaviours, strengths and talents.
The second option is a paid for option. There is no need to re-do the assessment, however for the paid version you will receive a comprehensive Acer Synapse BDP report that gives you the full details of the areas of strengths, key behaviours, and talents with an expanded explanation on how you can build on these strengths whilst also giving ideas on how to navigate your weaknesses.
Schools, universities and other educational institutions who would like to have a large number of individuals participate in the Acer Synapse BDP assessment can reach out to Acer through the contact us link to discuss a discount to allow for all their learners to undertake the online-assessment and receive the full report by individual learners or students.
The dominant brain hemisphere, which dictates how you would prefer to think, handle detail, your levels of creativeness and timekeeping.
The dominant eye, which dictates how you perceive and processes visual information. A left eye dominance candidate tracks from right-to-left, doesn’t always see detail, is sensitive to negative body language and can be at risk of being taken for a ride. Whilst a right eye candidate tracks from left to right, sees detail quickly and are more objective related to the behaviour or others.
The dominant ear, which determines how you hear and
processes auditory information.
Therefore, determining whether you have a “country club Manger/Mother Theresa†ear having difficulty saying no or do you possibly have a right impatient dominant ear making you assertive and possibly often
interrupting people!
The dominant hand, which indicates how the person communicates, follow processes and hand techniques in sport. A right hand person has a structured/straight hand ideal for golf and batting, while a left hand person has an agile hand for tennis and squash.
The dominant foot, which indicates how the person
approaches problem solving and/or whether the person has a natural straight or agile foot preference in sport.
The BDP will also assist in understanding how your
behaviour will be affected in stress.
Based on the profile, you are able to understand your preferred or natural tendencies and unconscious preferences. In addition to the above, the BDP will also tell you (amongst other things) how you will relate to other people and/or behave at work. It will assist you in understanding your feelings and emotions better and thus, how you will function unconsciously in the various dimensions of occupational behaviour.
Given that the BDP asks physical questions, it means that it is free of all of the biases that traditionally affect the results of a psychometric assessment:
Importantly, the BDP will tell you how you will function under stress and what will cause you to stress. For example, will you lose your ability to take in detailed visual information (such as statistical information), or will you be slower in solving problems? Are there times when you don’t want to interact with others, etc.
Other information that can be determined from a BDP includes (inter alia):
“Mismatching†in school, work and sport environments continues today for millions of people. It is possibly the biggest single cause of school failure (for example). It is obvious that everyone has different preferences and talents. Pablo Picasso was a great painter; William Shakespeare a phenomenal writer; Lionel Messe, Tiger Woods and Naas Botha great sportsmen; Enrico Caruso a brilliant tenor; Anna Pavlova an outstanding ballet dancer and Dwayne Johnson a fine actor.
Yet many of our schools, universities, and training providers operate as if each person is identical. Even worse is that most are operating with an evaluation system that rewards only a limited number of abilities. These rewards early in life, often set the scene and separate the allegedly gifted and intelligent from those who are claimed to be less intelligent and underachievers.
“But standardised tests don’t test all abilitiesâ€.
One of the strongest warnings against labelling and “lumping together†of learners comes from Mel Levine – professor of paediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School.
Planet Earth, he says in his book “One Mind at a Timeâ€, is inhabited by all kinds of people who have all kinds of minds.
The brain of each person is unique. He likens the human mind to a complex toolbox, where not everyone may become experts in using all the implements. He prefers developing a profile that identifies each child’s strength and locates those “trouble spots†where facets of a profile don’t “mesh†with some facets of schooling. Dr. Annette Martins from Annette Martins and Associates has done exactly that – agreeing with Dr Levine that it is much more important to identify strengths than to concentrate too much on minor weaknesses.
Dr Willis Harman President, Institute of Noetic Sciences
