Drake

Generalities

Drake P3 has been distributed by the Canadian company Drake International since 1951.

Drake International proposes a series of services and products, including psychometric, behavioral, and skill Assessments, employee engagement surveys, workforce analytics, and outplacement. They are sold by resellers in North America, Asia, and the UK.

Assessment

The Drake 3 questionnaire consists of two lists of 30 adjectives, presented as a forced-choice question on a five-point scale. It takes 7-10 minutes to answer. It measures four dimensions presented below. The dimensions are designated with a word or the letters D, E, P, and C.

Drake P3 measures apparent and natural behaviors. A job evaluation form is available. Comments are produced to explain the measurements. A graph is plotted alongside the comments in a table on a seven-point scale.

Dimension	Description	GRI a priori
Dominance	Task-oriented, generally characterized as direct, decisive, and highly self-confident. Or motivated by group input and collaboration, and supportive of groupthink.	High 1 versus low 1
Extraversion	Extroverted and prefer to talk through their problems, or think through them, and feel drained in social situations, often requiring a period of quiet to recharge.	High 2 versus low 2
Patience	Accepting circumstances and others as they are and demonstrating self-control, even in the most challenging of situations, or actively seeking change, and demonstrating a quick-witted and swift temperament.	Low 1, high 3 versus high 1, low 3
Compliance	Having a preference towards tasks, rather than people, being often detailed and disciplined, delivering a dependable service, and being fiercely loyal, or being excellent at outlining what needs to be done, but filling in the details can be exhausting, seeing the big picture, being visionary thinkers.	High 4, low 2, low 1 versus low 4, high 2, high 1

Usage

The publisher proposes the test for hiring, onboarding, performance appraisals, team building, development, and talent management.

Comments

The Drake P3 dimensions are close to those of the AVA, DISC, PI systems, and other systems originating from the same 1950 period. The Drake P3 assessment is a forced-choice assessment, similar to DISC, and unlike PI, which is a free-choice assessment.

The profiles created by Drake P3 resemble those of DISC, showing vertical rather than horizontal, as for PI. It only includes two profiles: one for behaviors expressed naturally and one for adaptive behaviors.

The four dimensions being measured are work-related, meet considerations of parsimony and coverage, but as suggested by the above comparison with GRI’s four factors, may lack orthogonality, a consideration that emerged in the 1990s, 40 years after Drake P3 was created, with the arrival of the Five Factor Model (FFM) and new research conducted during this period.

The forced-choice nature of the questionnaire may constrain the scales and distort the intensity of the assessed dimensions and their relationships with one another, thereby affecting the shape of the profiles made of the four dimensions D, E, P, C, and the deductions that can be made from them.

A comparable profile to individuals for job assessments helps lead discussions toward analyzing candidate and employee fit.

The Drake P3 deploys primarily through service. One can answer the assessment for free from Drake P3 website. Resellers such as Bent Erickson and Associates propose the Drake P3 for $165 (as of 2025). The questionnaire may be included in service and annual license packages.