CPCE - Assessment and testing Questions and Answers 100% Pass

CPCE - Assessment and testing Questions and Answers 100% Pass Appraisal - Correct Answer ️️ -Process of assessing or estimating attributes Free choice / free response - Correct Answer ️️ -Short answer Forced choice - Correct Answer ️️ -NCE/CPCE Recognition items Difficulty index - Correct Answer ️️ -Indicates percentage of people who answered each item correctly Normative & Ipsative format - Correct Answer ️️ -Normative - person's score evaluated by comparing it to others who took same test Ipsative - measures compare traits within same person Achievement (attainment) tests vs. personality (interest) inventory - Correct Answer ️️ -Achievement - Measure maximum performance or present level of skill Personality - typical performance Q-sort - Correct Answer ️️ -Sorting statements to evaluate self-esteem Sprial test vs. cyclical test - Correct Answer ️️ -Spiral - Items get progressively harder Cyclical - several sections which are spiral Test battery - Correct Answer ️️ -Horizontal test - measures various factors (ex: math & science) during same testing procedure Which is more important, validity or reliability? - Correct Answer ️️ -Validity - a test must measure what it means to measure Types of validity - Correct Answer ️️ -Content - does the test examine the behavior under scrutiny? Construct - test's ability to measure a theoretical construct like intelligence Concurrent - how well the test compares to other instruments that are intended for the same purpose Predictive (empirical) - test's ability to predict future behavior according to criteria Consequential - social implications of using tests * criterion validity - concurrent validity and predictive validity together Incremental vs. synthetic validity - Correct Answer ️️ -Incremental - process by which a test is refined and becomes more valid as contradictory items are dropped Synthetic - helper looks for tests that have been shown to predict each job element or component Convergent vs. discriminant validity - Correct Answer ️️ -Convergent - correlating test scores with an outside source Discriminant - test will not reflect unrelated variables Reliability coefficient of .70 means - Correct Answer ️️ -70% of the score is accurate and 30% is inaccurate True variance or coefficient of determination - Correct Answer ️️ -Square the coefficient Ex: Correlation of .70 .... .70 x .70 = .49 and .49 x 100 = 49% First IQ test - Correct Answer ️️ -Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon MA/CA x 100 IQ formula replaced by SAS (standard age score) Wechsler IQ - Correct Answer ️️ -More for adults than Binet