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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

Which scatterplot shows zero correlation?

2 / 30

Think carefully about this question – don’t rush it! Sally undertakes a verbal reasoning test which has a standard deviation of 3 and a test-retest reliability of 0.8. Sally scores 14 on the test. What is the 68% confidence interval for Sally’s score?

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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?

4 / 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.

References
Personality Assessments
Specific Ability Tests
Astrology
General Reasoning Tests
Unstructured Interviews
Assessment Centres with reliable and valid tools & well-trained assessors
Graphology
Structured Behavioural Interviews

5 / 30

What is the minimum level of reliability that we aspire to for personality assessments?

6 / 30

Approximately how much of the variance in grade performance is associated with the numerical reasoning test score?

7 / 30

When feeding back to a candidate, is it a better idea to use stens or percentiles.

8 / 30

The utility equation is as follows:

(note: Average Test Score relates to that of those selected)

9 / 30

Which model of intelligence has received generally greater support?

10 / 30

What does the Utility Equation do?

11 / 30

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

Most frequently occurring value
The middle value in a set of data
Add up all values and then divide by the number of values

12 / 30

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

13 / 30

Z scores have a mean of

14 / 30

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

15 / 30

Match the types of validity with their descriptions:

Concurrent Criterion Related Validity
Construct Validity
Face Validity
Faith validity
Content Validity
Predictive Criterion Related Validity

16 / 30

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

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

17 / 30

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

18 / 30

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

Measures of central tendency
Measures of spread

19 / 30

A test publisher correlates an ability test score with a rating of job performance and concludes that the finding is significant at the 5% level. What does she mean? Choose all that apply:

20 / 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:

21 / 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

22 / 30

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

23 / 30

Which of the following IS NOT true?

24 / 30

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

25 / 30

Which of the following Job Analysis methods is the best?

26 / 30

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

27 / 30

Place the following levels of data in the correct order with the lowest level of quality signified by 1 and the highest signified by 3.

Interval
Ordinal
Nominal

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

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

30 / 30

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

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