Proficiency knowledge test Exam Questions
and certified Answers 2023/2024
As a field examiner, you must judge the performance of the
examinee, not the person. Personal feelings cannot have an effect
on the outcome of the skill examination. - correct answer
True
As a field examiner, you will be required to review the
procedures with the person serving as a "team member" during a
team skill. There are no team skills where only the examinee is
being evaluated. - correct answer True
. If the examinee tells the team member to do a wrong step
during a team skill, the team member must follow those
instructions except __________. - correct answer If the act
would cause a safety hazard.
Halo Effect - correct answer An evaluator tends to base
overall judgments or evaluations on selected pieces of
information rather than on all available relevant information.
Leniency Effect - correct answer An evaluator tends to rate
an examinee too high or judges the performance level as better
than it is in actuality.
Central Tendency - correct answer An evaluator tends to rate
examinees toward the mid-point of a scale or to judge the
, performance as average or neutral when it is actually well above
or well below the middle level of the scale.
Contrast Effect - correct answer An evaluator tends to
compare one examinee to other examinees rather than
comparing that examinee's level of performance to the
standards.
Stringency Effect - correct answer An evaluator tends to rate
an examinee too low or judges the performance level as poorer
than it is in actuality.
The ________ occurs when an evaluator tends to base judgments
and evaluations on early opinions rather than on a complete
picture and tends to distort subsequent information to fit the
initial opinion. - correct answer First-impression effect
The ________ occurs when an evaluator judges more favorably
those people seen as similar to himself/herself. - correct
answer Similar-to-me-effect
Which of the following must field examiners keep in mind when
evaluating an examinee? - correct answer (D. All of the
above)
A. The examinee's performance when the skill requires multiple
steps and if there is a prescribed order for the steps that has to
be followed.
B. The steps, the number of steps required, and whether the
steps have to be performed in a certain sequential order. Some