Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 1 - PsyAsia International Community

Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 1

Final Course Exam: PAWL1

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1 / 30

Match the items on the left with the items on the right

Norm referencing

Criterion referencing

2 / 30

If a test publisher does not provide example questions for you to send out to candidates prior to the actual assessment, you can simply devise your own example questions on the basis of some of the test questions?

True

False

3 / 30

The following sentence is describing supervised administration? Each candidate sits at a computer and is monitored by the trained test administrator.

True

False

4 / 30

Which of the two types of discrimination is most likely to occur when using psychometric tests?

Direct Discrimination

Indirect Discrimination

5 / 30

Which of the following types of scale provides us with superior richness of data?

Ordinal scales

Interval scales

6 / 30

Which of the following is correct?

T scores from different tests can be added together

Percentiles are equally distributed across the normal distribution

Sten scores have a mean of 5

7 / 30

A candidate is not sure whether to answer a personality questionnaire based on how they are at work, at home, or a mix of the two. What would you advise?

Answer based on their home personality

Answer based on their work personality

Answer based on their general personality

Don't give them any advice

8 / 30

Arrange the following in the correct order to show the correct stages of psychometric test development.
Note that stages appear in random order!

Stage 1

Stage 7

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 6

Stage 4

Stage 5

9 / 30

Before the test day, a candidate contacts you to advise that he has trouble reading small text. What is the best course of action initially?

Ask him to come along to the session anyway and remind you of his concern on the day

Ask him how best you can help him

Tell him not to worry and offer to provide somebody to read the questions to him

Tell him that regrettably he will be unable to sit the test

10 / 30

Which of the following is correct about managed test administration? (check all that apply)

Test security is difficult to enforce

Candidates get their own unique username and password

Administrator needs to ensure there are enough question booklets for each candidate

Requires one trained test administrator per 10 candidates

It is web-based

11 / 30

Which of the following is correct about open test administration? (check all that apply)

Candidates get their own unique username and password

Test security is difficult to enforce

It is web-based

It is supervised

12 / 30

In a validity study for a psychometric test, it is found that women generally do better than men on the test, whilst, on the job there are no significant performance differences. Which ONE of the following statements is correct in this situation?

There appears to be no adverse impact

There is evidence of justified adverse impact

There is evidence of unjustified adverse impact

13 / 30

Type in the single word that should be inserted in all of the blanks (_____) below:

A Psychometric Test must be:

Administered in a _____way. Scored in a _____way. Interpreted in a _____ way.

14 / 30

All psychometric tests are as reliable and valid as each other. It is only the test administrator that causes tests to be less reliable and valid.

False

True

15 / 30

A candidate tells you on the day of testing that she has dyslexia. Which is the better course of action?

Continue with the test session and make a note about the candidate's "claimed" dyslexia in the test log

Reschedule the test session for this candidate

Reschedule the test session for everybody

16 / 30

After you achieve your Level 1 Qualification, your organisation will be qualified to administer psychometric tests indefinitely?

True

False

17 / 30

Match the items on the left with those on the right:

Work sample

Speed test

Power Test

Maximum Performance

Trainability test

Typical behaviour

18 / 30

Your boss comes to you after you have administered an aptitude test for a small group of candidates and asks you to hand over their scores. What do you do?

Explain that you need to first pass the results on to a Level 2 trained individual who will later offer feedback to your boss

Hand over the reports and explain them carefully to him

Hand over the scores

Politely refuse to hand over the scores

19 / 30

What is the name of the projective test developed by Murray and Morgan?

20 / 30

What is the PRINCIPLE reason for standardisation being so important in psychometric test administration?

None of the other choices

Because candidates need to feel secure in the process

Because it impacts reliability which in turn will impact validity

To ensure mistakes are not made

21 / 30

A candidate scores at the 18th percentile on a numerical reasoning test and at the 10th percentile on a verbal reasoning test. The candidate’s total score is at the 28th percentile.

False

True

22 / 30

What is the Z score for a candidate with a raw score of 24 on a test with a mean of 28 and a standard deviation of 3?
(Answer to the nearest TWO decimal places)

23 / 30

Fill in the blanks using WHOLE NUMBERS only:

If a candidate scores 2 standard deviations above the mean, this represents a Z score of and a percentile score of .

24 / 30

Your candidate scored a STEN of 8 on the verbal reasoning test and a STANINE of 6 on the numerical reasoning test. What is your candidate’s TOTAL T-score?
(Round up to the nearest whole number)

25 / 30

Calculate the percentile score for a candidate scoring 10 on a test completed by 200 people, whereby 64 people scored below 10. Please enter a numerical value only.

26 / 30

Look at this picture. What test is this from?

27 / 30

Listen to the audio. I am playing the role of the candidate.
What level of evidence do you hear?

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

28 / 30

A candidate complains that psychometric tests are biased towards certain groups. What is the best course of action initially?

Tell the candidate they are free to leave if they don't want to take the test

Tell the candidate that this may be true of some poorly developed tests but that the one you have chosen has been shown to be free of bias – ask them to give the test a chance and feel free to discuss further later if he wishes

Tell the candidate that this is not true, but it's really all very complicated and you don't have time to explain

Tell the candidate that is not true and offer to more discuss later

29 / 30

Which of these statements is correct?

Validity is a precursor to reliability

Both statements are correct

Reliability is a precursor to validity

30 / 30

The area between Z scores of -1 and -2 is located where on this normal distribution curve? Choose the number that matches below:

5

1

6

4

2

3

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