If used as a formative assessment, e.g. with transparency as well as expert feedback, it may increase the learner's self-awareness about his or her ability to enact openness. If used as a summative instrument, it will allow the instructor or institution to measure growth or regression of openness as defined by the four constructs of the instrument.

Tolerance of uncertainty, a related concept, is of great interest in the health professions. An open source article which discusses how tolerance of uncertainty differs from tolerance of ambiguity is  available  --although CILMAR is aware of no instruments arising, as yet, from this research.  See: Hillen, M. A., Gutheil, C. M., Strout, T. D., Smets, E. M., & Han, P. K. (2017). Tolerance of uncertainty: conceptual analysis, integrative model, and implications for healthcare. Social Science & Medicine, 180, 62-75.