Psychometrics

Psychometric testing is generally a scientific term used to measure the mental capabilities and behavioural style of the person under testing. When we refer to psychometric testing or psychometric assessment we refer to tests, profiles or a combination of the two which then allows us to form a stronger understanding of a candidates’ job suitability. Psychometric testing has been in use for years. The French government assigned a psychologist ’Binet’ to develop a system of measuring intelligence for children in the early 1900’s . Since then, this system has been used to find out if a child has a learning disability in order to provide the child with suitable assistance. Psychometric tests can assess attributes that are not measured by other…

Introduction Below follows a four-fold discussion and analysis of the SSAIS-R psychometric test. It begins with an in-depth description of the test, linking with what the test measures. Then moving on to motivation for whether it was a good choice or not, and lastly identifying key problems with the psychometric test. An in-depth description of the test SSAIS-R stands for Senior South African Intelligence Scales-Revised. This test has played a central role in the intelligence testing of South…

620070481 University of the West Indies Psychometrics Psyc2007 According to Irpate (2013) he quotes from Ivancevich and Donnelly (1968) that “Job satisfaction is the favourable viewpoint of the worker toward the work role, he present by occupies.” Irpate (2013) also quotes a few other definitions of job satisfaction such as, Job satisfaction is simply how people feel about their jobs and different aspects of job (Spector, 1997). It is an attitudinal (and affective) response to one’s job…

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was officially recognised as a clinical syndrome in 1980 in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) DSM-III stimulating scientific interest, resulting in a surge of research. Individuals needing treatment were being identified through clinical measures that then guided treatment distribution (Marshall, Spitzer, & Liebowitz, 1999). Two measures developed was the Penn Inventory for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (Hammarberg, 1992) and the…

Cadbury Psychometric assessment has always played a part in Cadbury recruitment process. However paper-based tests can be unwieldy and time-consuming. Applicants used to spend 90 minutes of an assessment day on verbal and numerical tests. After a successful trial last, they’ve cut this down to a 45- minute online experience prior to the interview stage. Cadbury feel this is a far more efficient way of achieving what they want to achieve. It also means they get better value out of thier…

The test that I have chosen is the Children’s Depression Inventory which was published by Multi Health Systems and is intended for test takers ages 7-17 either in the educational or clinical setting to evaluation depression symptoms. Lee, Krishnan, and Park (2011; 2012) discusses the psychometric properties of the test to help address the question of the specific type of reliability, the associated source of error, as well as Lee, Krishnan, and Park’s interpretation of the results. The study…

Explicit informed consent will be collected from applicants before they engage in any psychometric testing. All psychometric tests used are job relevant and this able to be justified through their measurement of competencies identified by a detailed Job Analysis. Feedback of test results is provided by a knowledgeable individual with appropriate explanations, interpretations and identifications of test limitations and tasks within this process will not be given to persons not competent and…

I think that we can all agree that almost any test can be made more useful, but as of right now test are very useful for the military because there are some jobs that require a certain level of intelligence. In my own personal opinion most, intelligence test I have come across have great face value and deemed to be very useful. When we talk about being useful we have to understand that we are not be talking about the test specifically such as the psychometrics but rather how the test can be…

Validity of screening tests in the medical field and the field of psychology is extremely important. These tests help decipher if an individual needs to proceed with further assessments (Gregory, 2011). Without validity of tests, one would not be able to accurately screen for mental health disorders or ailments within the body (Gregory, 2011). Medical screening tests coined the words “sensitivity” and “specificity” while testing for diseases (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics…

This positive correlation suggested that the higher the score in customer service orientation questionnaire (i.e. which means you are less agreeable, less conscientious and less emotion stable), the more likely that you are a counter-productive employee. Result suggested that there is indeed a relation between psychometric test and job performance. Results from Tett, Jackson and Rothstein’s (1991) meta-analysis supported the relation between job performance and psychometric tests (r= .24), and…