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2025/2026 Exam Prep & Practice Questions
Appraisal - correct answerProcess of assessing or estimating attributes
Free choice / free response - correct answerShort answer
Forced choice - correct answerNCE/CPCE
Recognition items
Difficulty index - correct answerIndicates percentage of people who answered each item
correctly
Normative & Ipsative format - correct answerNormative - 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
answerAchievement - Measure maximum performance or present level of skill
Personality - typical performance
Q-sort - correct answerSorting statements to evaluate self-esteem
Sprial test vs. cyclical test - correct answerSpiral - Items get progressively harder
Cyclical - several sections which are spiral
Test battery - correct answerHorizontal test - measures various factors (ex: math &
science) during same testing procedure
Which is more important, validity or reliability? - correct answerValidity - a test must
measure what it means to measure
Types of validity - correct answerContent - 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 answerIncremental - 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 answerConvergent - correlating test scores
with an outside source
Discriminant - test will not reflect unrelated variables
Reliability coefficient of .70 means - correct answer70% of the score is accurate and
30% is inaccurate
True variance or coefficient of determination - correct answerSquare the coefficient
Ex: Correlation of .70 .... .70 x .70 = .49 and .49 x 100 = 49%
First IQ test - correct answerAlfred Binet and Theodore Simon
MA/CA x 100
IQ formula replaced by SAS (standard age score)
Wechsler IQ - correct answerMore for adults than Binet
WPPSI - correct answerWechsler PS and Primary Scale of Intel. - 2-6 months to 7
years and 7 months
WAIS-IV - correct answerWechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - 16-90 years
Online, 60-90 min, based on neurocognitive research, verbal/perceptual/working
memory/processing speed, FSIQ (full scale IQ), measures IQ from 40-160
Mean: 100 SD: 15 (16 for Stanford Binet)
WISC-IV - correct answerWechsler Intel. Scale for Children - 6-16 years
2025/2026 Exam Prep & Practice Questions
Appraisal - correct answerProcess of assessing or estimating attributes
Free choice / free response - correct answerShort answer
Forced choice - correct answerNCE/CPCE
Recognition items
Difficulty index - correct answerIndicates percentage of people who answered each item
correctly
Normative & Ipsative format - correct answerNormative - 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
answerAchievement - Measure maximum performance or present level of skill
Personality - typical performance
Q-sort - correct answerSorting statements to evaluate self-esteem
Sprial test vs. cyclical test - correct answerSpiral - Items get progressively harder
Cyclical - several sections which are spiral
Test battery - correct answerHorizontal test - measures various factors (ex: math &
science) during same testing procedure
Which is more important, validity or reliability? - correct answerValidity - a test must
measure what it means to measure
Types of validity - correct answerContent - 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 answerIncremental - 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 answerConvergent - correlating test scores
with an outside source
Discriminant - test will not reflect unrelated variables
Reliability coefficient of .70 means - correct answer70% of the score is accurate and
30% is inaccurate
True variance or coefficient of determination - correct answerSquare the coefficient
Ex: Correlation of .70 .... .70 x .70 = .49 and .49 x 100 = 49%
First IQ test - correct answerAlfred Binet and Theodore Simon
MA/CA x 100
IQ formula replaced by SAS (standard age score)
Wechsler IQ - correct answerMore for adults than Binet
WPPSI - correct answerWechsler PS and Primary Scale of Intel. - 2-6 months to 7
years and 7 months
WAIS-IV - correct answerWechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - 16-90 years
Online, 60-90 min, based on neurocognitive research, verbal/perceptual/working
memory/processing speed, FSIQ (full scale IQ), measures IQ from 40-160
Mean: 100 SD: 15 (16 for Stanford Binet)
WISC-IV - correct answerWechsler Intel. Scale for Children - 6-16 years
