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

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

Power Test

Maximum Performance

Typical behaviour

Trainability test

Speed test

Work sample

2 / 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 .

3 / 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?

4 / 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)

5 / 30

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

Test security is difficult to enforce

Candidates get their own unique username and password

It is supervised

It is web-based

6 / 30

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

False

True

7 / 30

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

Ignore them

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

Tell them you cannot discuss the questions with them

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

8 / 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

9 / 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 .

10 / 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 general personality

Answer based on their home personality

Answer based on their work personality

Don't give them any advice

11 / 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 everybody

Reschedule the test session for this candidate

12 / 30

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

False

True

13 / 30

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

Ordinal scales

Interval scales

14 / 30

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

T-scores

Percentiles

15 / 30

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

Because candidates need to feel secure in the process

To ensure mistakes are not made

Because it impacts reliability which in turn will impact validity

None of the other choices

16 / 30

Look at this picture. What test is this from?

17 / 30

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

Norm referencing

Criterion referencing

18 / 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.

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?

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

Ask him how best you can help him

20 / 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 unjustified adverse impact

There is evidence of justified adverse impact

There appears to be no adverse impact

21 / 30

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

Stanine score

Raw score

Percentile score

IQ score

T score

Standardised score

22 / 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

23 / 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

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

24 / 30

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

1

6

4

5

3

2

25 / 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 5

Stage 2

Stage 6

Stage 1

Stage 7

Stage 4

Stage 3

26 / 30

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

Level 1

Level 3

Level 2

27 / 30

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

28 / 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

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

Give him the question booklets

29 / 30

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

Direct Discrimination

Indirect Discrimination

30 / 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.

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