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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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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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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

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Which of the following IS NOT true?

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

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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?

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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?

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The utility equation is as follows:

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

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

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

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Which of the following Job Analysis methods is the best?

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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:

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

Measures of spread
Measures of central tendency

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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

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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.

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Match the Job Analysis methods with the correct descriptions:

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

22 / 30

Which scatterplot shows zero correlation?

23 / 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.

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

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

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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.

27 / 30

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

28 / 30

Which scatterplot shows a correlation of -1.0

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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!)

30 / 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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