Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 1 - PsyAsia International Community

Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 1

Final Course Exam: PAWL1

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1 / 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)

2 / 30

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

Percentiles

T-scores

3 / 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

4 / 30

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

Level 2

Level 1

Level 3

5 / 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

6 / 30

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

7 / 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

8 / 30

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

Raw score

Stanine score

Standardised score

Percentile score

IQ score

T score

9 / 30

What makes direct discrimination particularly important in psychometric testing?

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

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 it only occurs with psychometric tests

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

10 / 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.

11 / 30

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

Indirect Discrimination

Direct Discrimination

12 / 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

13 / 30

Look at this picture. What test is this from?

14 / 30

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

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

Candidates get their own unique username and password

Requires one trained test administrator per 10 candidates

It is web-based

Test security is difficult to enforce

15 / 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.

16 / 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 3

Stage 2

Stage 7

Stage 5

Stage 4

Stage 6

Stage 1

17 / 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?

Don't give them any advice

Answer based on their work personality

Answer based on their home personality

Answer based on their general personality

18 / 30

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

Level 2

Level 3

Level 1

19 / 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?

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

Ask him how best you can help him

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

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

20 / 30

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

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 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

21 / 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 scores

Politely refuse to hand over the scores

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

22 / 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.

23 / 30

Which of these statements is correct?

Reliability is a precursor to validity

Both statements are correct

Validity is a precursor to reliability

24 / 30

Which of the following is correct?

Sten scores have a mean of 5

T scores from different tests can be added together

Percentiles are equally distributed across the normal distribution

25 / 30

26 / 30

What is the Z score for a candidate with a raw score of 28 on a test with a mean of 28 and a standard deviation of 3?

27 / 30

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

Because it impacts reliability which in turn will impact validity

To ensure mistakes are not made

Because candidates need to feel secure in the process

None of the other choices

28 / 30

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

Power Test

Typical behaviour

Work sample

Trainability test

Maximum Performance

Speed test

29 / 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)

30 / 30

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

False

True

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