Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 2 Ability - PsyAsia International Community

Psychometric Assessment Exam: Level 2 Ability

Final Course Exam: PAWL2A

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1 / 30

Match the types of validity with their descriptions:

Faith validity

Face Validity

Predictive Criterion Related Validity

Content Validity

Concurrent Criterion Related Validity

Construct Validity

2 / 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!)

3 / 30

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

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.

Graphology

Years of Job Experience

Personality Assessments

Astrology

Cognitive Tests

Years of Education

Cognitive Tests & Structured Interviews

References

Age

Structured Interviews

5 / 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?

11.20-16.90

12.15-15.65

12.66-15.34

11.50-16.25

6 / 30

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

False

True

7 / 30

Horn and Cattell took Spearman’s work with g further and introduced two sub areas. One of these was called crystallised intelligence and the other was called intelligence.

8 / 30

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

5%

9%

95%

2%

22%

9 / 30

Match the Job Analysis methods with the correct descriptions:

Interview aiming to discover the most important aspects of the job

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

10 / 30

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

0.32

0.22

11 / 30

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

The end result is expressed as a correlation coefficient

To compute it you need to assess 2 different groups of candidates at 2 different times using the same test

To compute it you need to assess 1 group of candidates at 2 different times using the same test

It requires more resources than internal consistency reliability

The test-retest reliability value is used in the calculation of a scale's standard error of measurement

It is less important than internal consistency reliability

12 / 30

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

99%

5%

10%

95%

1%

13 / 30

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

14 / 30

Which of these two theorists was responsible for a Multi-factor approach to intelligence?

Thurstone

Spearman

15 / 30

T-score scales have a mean of:

16 / 30

The SD of a sten scale is (exactly):

17 / 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?

Restriction of range problems

Criterion validity problems

Criterion reliability problems

18 / 30

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

False

True

19 / 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.

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

20 / 30

Who developed the first modern ability test?

Wechsler

Thurstone

Cattell

Spearman

Binet

21 / 30

A candidate obtains a raw score of 15 on test wherein 39 out of 167 people scored less than 15. How would you feed this back?

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

22 / 30

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

Percentiles

Stens

23 / 30

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

Measures of spread

Measures of central tendency

24 / 30

Systematic error during testing refers to:

Factors within the environment

Factors within the test

Factors within the respondent

25 / 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

26 / 30

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

27 / 30

What does the Utility Equation do?

Helps us understand what aspects of the selection process are important in establishing ROI or gain

Computes how much the testing process costs us

It does nothing meaningful

28 / 30

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

Consistency

Prediction

Validity

Error

Norms

29 / 30

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

Correlate test score with a future criterion

Correlate test score with scores on another similar test

Ask subject matter experts

Correlate test score with recent performance

Simply read the questions

30 / 30

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

Parallel Forms

Test-retest

Internal Consistency

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