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Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 2 Ability

L2A

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You have 30 minutes to answer 40 questions randomly taken from across the course. The pass mark remains 70%. Good luck!

Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 2 Ability

Final Course Exam: PAWL2A

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1 / 30

Who developed the first modern ability test?

2 / 30

Systematic error during testing refers to:

3 / 30

Put the following assessment methods in rank order according to Robertson & Smith’s findings regarding their ability to predict job performance. The least predictive method should be assigned 1 and the most predictive should be assigned 9.

Structured Interviews
Years of Education
Graphology
Age
Personality Assessments
References
Astrology
Cognitive Tests
Years of Job Experience
Cognitive Tests & Structured Interviews

4 / 30

A candidate scores at the 95%ile. Which of the following are acceptable ways to convey the score?

5 / 30

Meta-analytical research from 2005 suggests that Ability Tests can predict around how much of the variance in job performance?

6 / 30

Match the level of data to the typical correlation statistic used:

Nominal
Ordinal
Interval

7 / 30

Which of the following Job Analysis methods is the best?

8 / 30

If you are unable to undertake a formal job analysis, what method could you use as an absolute minimum?

9 / 30

Which of the biases in validity studies has the impact of inflating the correlation coefficient?

10 / 30

Match the possible methods of assessing validity to the respective type of validity:

Correlate test score with a future criterion
Simply read the questions
Correlate test score with scores on another similar test
Ask subject matter experts
Correlate test score with recent performance

11 / 30

A candidate scored a Z score of +2.
How would you feedback?

You scored at the  th percentile. This means that you did better than per cent of similar others. This score falls within the band.

12 / 30

What is the minimum level of reliability that we aspire to for ability tests?

13 / 30

The correlation between overall grade and scores on the verbal reasoning test is:

14 / 30

A candidate scored at the 39th percentile. His score is in the average band.

15 / 30

Match the Job Analysis methods with the correct descriptions:

Interview method breaking job down into its constituent parts
Online job analysis, skills, competencies, descriptions database
Interview aiming to discover the most important aspects of the job
A long questionnaire
Descriptions of job competencies used to assess relative importance of the competencies

16 / 30

A client of test publisher does his own validity study. He asks each of his many managers to assess the performance of employees selected using the psychometric test. He provides the managers with a list of 6 competencies to evaluate the employees on. Subsequent analyses show no significant relationship between the psychometric test and any of the competencies. What is the most likely of the following 3 biases at play here?

17 / 30

Which of the following statements is TRUE about test-retest reliability?
(Check ALL that apply)

18 / 30

The following are statements that relate to either Classical Test Theory or Item Response Theory. Please indicate which of the statements relate to Item Response Theory:

19 / 30

This picture shows reliability data from a test manual. If a candidate scored a raw score of 15 on NMG1, what would their Z score be?
(Hint: This draws upon knowledge from Level 1 which you should recall!)

20 / 30

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

Measures of spread
Measures of central tendency

21 / 30

What single word best describes the concept of reliability in psychometrics?

22 / 30

At the 1% level of significance, how many correlations in every 100 are probably due to chance effects?

23 / 30

Which scatterplot shows a correlation of -1.0

24 / 30

Which scatterplot shows zero correlation?

25 / 30

Which of the following statements would be CORRECT for the following data (check all that apply):
SEMean = 1, Norm Group Mean = 16, Norm Group SD = 2

26 / 30

Looking at the 2 correlations in the table – what is the probability that they occurred by chance?

27 / 30

The picture shows reliability data from a test manual. What type of reliability is shown here?

28 / 30

A candidate scores a raw score of 17 on a test which has a standard deviation of 2 and mean of 17.
How would you feed this back?

You scored at the  th percentile. This means that you did better than per cent of similar others. This score falls within the band.

29 / 30

Job analysis informs the job description and the (2 words).

30 / 30

Calculate the SEMean for the following: 150 Candidates, SD = 2 (Round to nearest 2 decimal places)

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