Under what circumstances is it most appropriate to use standardized tests for prediction?
a. Predicting general mental ability.
b. Predicting relatively limited factors over a brief time.
c. Predicting long term academic success within diverse institutions.
d. Predicting abilities related to abstract concepts.
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of group tests?
a. They are cost-efficient.
b. Scoring is more objective.
c. Scores are more reliable.
d. Examiners have more training.
The GRE is a strong predictor of
a. clinical skills.
b. first year graduate school grades.
c. ability to solve real world problems.
d. none of the above
First year grades in graduate school are the best ________ of the GRE.
a. predictor
b. correlate
c. criterion
d. justification
What change to the General Aptitude Test Battery occurred as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1991?
a. It can no longer be used in employment decisions.
b. It can no longer use within-group norming.
c. It must be directly related to job tasks.
d. It must be renormed each year.
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Test is now administered by computer, allowing adaptive testing. What is adaptive testing?
a. Adaptive testing includes only those items related to the recruit's areas of interest.
b. Adaptive testing involves presenting a question of known difficulty and then presenting more or less difficult items depending on whether the item was correctly answered.
c. Adaptive testing eliminates sources of bias by generating large numbers of items.
d. Adaptive testing reduces the risk of cheating by randomly sampling from a large test bank.
Which of the following was developed by the U.S. Employment Service to measure occupational aptitude?
a. IPAT Culture Fair Intelligence Test
b. Wonderlic Personnel Test
c. General Aptitude Test Battery
d. Raven Progressive Matrices
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
a. has poor psychometric characteristics.
b. is not a valid predictor of training performance.
c. does not have adequate norming information.
d. now has a computerized adaptive version.
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
a. is extremely weak from a psychometric standpoint.
b. is of little use to the military despite the large numbers of tests given.
c. is not valid for Blacks and Hispanics.
d. consists of ten subtests.
Which of the following tests was developed for use in making employment decisions in government agencies?
a. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
b. General Aptitude Test Battery
c. Differential Aptitude Test
d. Wonderlic Personnel Test
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