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

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Match the sampling methods with their correct descriptions:

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

3 / 30

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

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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.

5 / 30

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

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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.

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

7 / 30

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

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

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

10 / 30

What does the Utility Equation do?

11 / 30

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

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

12 / 30

Which model of intelligence has received generally greater support?

13 / 30

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

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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?

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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.

16 / 30

Match the Job Analysis methods with the correct descriptions:

Interview aiming to discover the most important aspects of the job
Interview method breaking job down into its constituent parts
Descriptions of job competencies used to assess relative importance of the competencies
Online job analysis, skills, competencies, descriptions database
A long questionnaire

17 / 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.

18 / 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

19 / 30

Who developed the first modern ability test?

20 / 30

Which scatterplot shows zero correlation?

21 / 30

Systematic error during testing refers to:

22 / 30

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

23 / 30

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

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

24 / 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:

25 / 30

Which of the following Job Analysis methods is the best?

26 / 30

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

27 / 30

T-score scales have a mean of:

28 / 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:

29 / 30

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

30 / 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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