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

2 / 30

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

3 / 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:

4 / 30

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

5 / 30

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

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

6 / 30

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

7 / 30

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

8 / 30

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

9 / 30

This picture shows reliability data from a test manual. What does the abbreviation SEm stand for?

10 / 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:

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

12 / 30

Which scatterplot shows zero correlation?

13 / 30

Research shows that the number of years of work experience somebody has is an important predictor of job performance?

14 / 30

T-score scales have a mean of:

15 / 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!)

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

17 / 30

Match the Job Analysis methods with the correct descriptions:

Descriptions of job competencies used to assess relative importance of the competencies
A long questionnaire
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

18 / 30

Think about this carefully – don’t rush it! Sally and Jo both undertake a numerical reasoning test. The test has an SEm of 2. Sally scores 10 on the test whilst Jo scores 16. How confident can we be that Jo is really better than Sally at numerical reasoning?

19 / 30

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

20 / 30

Z scores have a mean of

21 / 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?

22 / 30

Who developed the first modern ability test?

23 / 30

What does the Utility Equation do?

24 / 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.

25 / 30

Every significant finding is useful in establishing the validity of the test:

26 / 30

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

27 / 30

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

Measures of spread
Measures of central tendency

28 / 30

Which model of intelligence has received generally greater support?

29 / 30

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

30 / 30

Match the types of validity with their descriptions:

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

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