What TestMind can do, what it cannot do, and how it should be used in a classroom — stated openly and in full.
TestMind is a free Uzbek-language personality questionnaire for school students aged 13–18. It is based on the Big Five model and measures five traits: emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The student receives a character corresponding to their two highest-scoring traits.
It is not a medical or psychological diagnosis. It does not measure ability, intelligence or knowledge, and it does not predict a student’s future success.
The items are adapted from openly available international Big Five inventories, but TestMind itself has not yet undergone separate psychometric validation in Uzbekistan. Reliability and factor structure for this population are not yet established.
Where two traits score closely, the character can change. The test does not hide this: in that case the student is shown the second character as well.
What is analysed is what the student says about themselves. Mood, haste and the wish to look good all affect the result.
Between 13 and 18 personality is still forming. The result is a snapshot of today, not a stable characteristic.
Notify parents before the test and share this page with them. Participation must be voluntary.
Explain the purpose to the student and tell them they may decline. A test taken under compulsion does not produce trustworthy data.
Not "this is what you are" but "what do you make of this?" The result is a prompt for questions, not a verdict.
Do not use the character to assign students to classes or streams. The test is not designed for that and is not accurate enough for it.
The character should not become part of a student’s official file or reference.
Comparing results in front of the class, or asking who came out "better", is harmful. No character is better than another.
The result should be weighed alongside interests, opportunities and actual experience.
The test does not ask the student for a name or an age. On completion only anonymous data is stored: five trait scores, the character name, the time taken and the device type.
The student’s item-level responses are also stored without a name: the record holds no name, no age and no email address, and is given a separate random identifier, so it cannot be joined to the student’s other data. This data is used solely to make the instrument more accurate for Uzbek adolescents and is not shared with anyone. Please inform parents before running the test in class.
If a student chooses to leave an email address, that record is not anonymous — we say so plainly on the Privacy page. Students under 18 are advised to consult an adult before leaving one.
The site uses no advertising and no tracking scripts, and loads nothing from other sites. The single outbound request is the one described above, sending anonymous data to a private Google spreadsheet.
For questions, suggestions, or to have data deleted: raximovrahim1@gmail.com. If you are planning to run the test at your school, write to us — we will help.