Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 1 - PsyAsia International Community

Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 1

Final Course Exam: PAWL1

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The number of attempts remaining is 1

Kindly complete the following for tracking and certification purposes.
Name should be entered exactly as you would like to see it on any certificate.

1 / 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)

2 / 30

Your boss comes to you after you have administered an aptitude test and asks to see the question booklet. He wants to know how relevant the questions are for the job under consideration. What do you do?

Tell him you can't help him

Give him the question booklets

Explain that you cannot hand over the question booklets, but that you can ask a Level 2 trained user to explain the test and its rationale

3 / 30

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

Ordinal scales

Interval scales

4 / 30

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

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 is not true and offer to more discuss later

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

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

5 / 30

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

False

True

6 / 30

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

Power Test

Typical behaviour

Work sample

Trainability test

Maximum Performance

Speed test

7 / 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?

False

True

8 / 30

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

False

True

9 / 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?

Hand over the reports and explain them carefully to him

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

Politely refuse to hand over the scores

Hand over the scores

10 / 30

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

T-scores

Percentiles

11 / 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)

12 / 30

A candidate is unhappy about getting all of their example questions wrong. What is the better course of action?

Tell them you cannot discuss the questions with them

Tell them that it is expected that some people will fail this test

Ignore them

Ensure that they understand the process, then reassure them and ask them to look over the questions again

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

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 is evidence of justified adverse impact

There is evidence of unjustified adverse impact

There appears to be no adverse impact

15 / 30

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

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1

16 / 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 how best you can help him

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

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

17 / 30

Look at this picture. What test is this from?

18 / 30

What makes direct discrimination particularly important in psychometric testing?

It's actually indirect discrimination that is more likely to occur – and it's an issue because it's unintended and so difficult to detect

The fact that we have a duty to protect society from this type of discrimination

The fact that it is typically unintended (and therefore more difficult to detect)

The fact that it only occurs with psychometric tests

19 / 30

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

Reschedule the test session for this candidate

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

Reschedule the test session for everybody

20 / 30

Which of these statements is correct?

Reliability is a precursor to validity

Validity is a precursor to reliability

Both statements are correct

21 / 30

For a candidate scoring at the 25th percentile, which of the following statements are correct. Check ALL that apply:

The candidate is in the top 75%

The candidate is in the top 25%

The candidate scored 25 percent in the test

The candidate performed worse than 25% of similar others

The candidate is in the bottom 25%

The candidate performed better than 25% of similar others

22 / 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.

True

False

23 / 30

Look at this picture and complete the blanks below using one correctly spelt word for each!

This is a test of reasoning. It is a test. It is also considered to be a performance test.

24 / 30

We discussed the 3 main factors which impact test reliability. These are factors within the test, factors within the respondent and factors within the .

25 / 30

The candidate’s performance on a test comprised of questions directly relevant to the job is used to ascertain the candidate’s ability to do the job. This sentence is referring to ___________ referencing. Please type in the missing single word.

26 / 30

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

To ensure mistakes are not made

Because it impacts reliability which in turn will impact validity

Because candidates need to feel secure in the process

None of the other choices

27 / 30

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

Raw score

Percentile score

Stanine score

Standardised score

T score

IQ score

28 / 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 .

29 / 30

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

Level 3

Level 1

Level 2

30 / 30

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

Test security is difficult to enforce

It is supervised

It is web-based

Candidates get their own unique username and password

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