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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

Systematic error during testing refers to:

2 / 30

A candidate scores at the 95%ile. Which of the following are acceptable ways to convey the score?

3 / 30

Match the sampling methods with their correct descriptions:

Norm group members are recruited as a result of having easy access, perhaps due to an existing relationship with a company
Each person in the norm group has an equal chance of being selected
Norm group members are selected based on demographics

4 / 30

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

5 / 30

A candidate scored at the 39th percentile. His score is in the average band.

6 / 30

T-score scales have a mean of:

7 / 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:

8 / 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

9 / 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?

10 / 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.

Personality Assessments
Age
Graphology
Years of Education
Astrology
Years of Job Experience
Structured Interviews
Cognitive Tests
References
Cognitive Tests & Structured Interviews

11 / 30

The SD of a sten scale is (exactly):

12 / 30

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

13 / 30

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

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

14 / 30

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

15 / 30

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

Measures of central tendency
Measures of spread

16 / 30

Which scatterplot shows a correlation of -1.0

17 / 30

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

18 / 30

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

19 / 30

Which of the following IS NOT true?

20 / 30

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

21 / 30

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

22 / 30

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

23 / 30

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

24 / 30

A company uses an abstract reasoning test as part of its selection process. Candidates who achieve the pass mark are carried forward to the next stage of the selection process. The pass mark is set at a Z score of +2. If the company tests 100 candidates, how many of them are likely to pass?

25 / 30

Match the level of data to the typical correlation statistic used:

Interval
Ordinal
Nominal

26 / 30

What does the Utility Equation do?

27 / 30

Which of the following Job Analysis methods is the best?

28 / 30

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

29 / 30

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

30 / 30

A candidate scored a Z score of +2.
How would you feedback?

You scored at the  th percentile. This means that you did better than per cent of similar others. This score falls within the band.

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