Building your own norms for psychometric tests is like assembling kit set furniture: it’s not hard, but if you don’t stick to the instructions you can end up in a right mess. This article explains the most important guidelines for building robust norms that give more meaning to test scores. Why Custom Norms? Generic norms …
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Psytech is developing a wide variety of solutions designed to assist organisations hire, develop and retain their staff. The new solutions range of products remove some of the barriers that prevent many HR professionals and decision makers from using psychometric assessments: They allow decision makers access to assessments without the need for extensive training …
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Supervised Online Testing – A Way To Reduce Faking? An international between-subject study by Matthias Stadler & Psytech International Introduction Online testing is used more and more in personnel selection. However, research has only just begun to explore the possible gains and risks from taking psychometric tests out of standardized settings. Tippins et al. (2006) …
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Psytech International have today become one of the first trainers in psychometrics to become EFPA certified. EFPA will replace the BPS Level A & B in 2012. Psytech International will be offering the following EFPA certified Training Courses: Assistant Test User – ATU (analogous to the BPS Test Administrator Certificate) Test User Ability – TUA …
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BPS launched the new EFPA Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications structure on the 5th of September 2011. Since then, all verified training providers who affirm the competence of training course delegates will effectively indicate which EFPA certificate should be awarded. EFPA Level 1 is the Assistant Test User qualification will be the …
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The British Psychological Society (BPS) has now announced the commencement of the long awaited update / replacement for the Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing. The widely recognised BPS Level A Certificate and Level B Intermediate, Intermediate Plus and Full Certificates have been in place since 1993. As of Dec 2010, 10,584 had completed the …
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Psytech International have just released an additional norm for CRTB2. Recognising that Critical Reasoning Assessments are commonly used for senior role selection, and in response to requests for ‘Executive’ level comparators from clients, we have undertaken analysis of international respondent data for CRTB2 where it has been used for senior level assessment. Accordingly 1072 respondents …
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In short: No. Everyone should be given the same time to complete an assessment. For the UK and many other countries it is illegal to discriminate due to disability. In some extreme cases dyslexia can be considered a disability, and some assessors feel that to balance the test and reduce the chance of discrimination that …
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The JTI questionnaire provides a comprehensive assessment of a person’s psychological type. It uses categories first proposed by C.G. Jung (1921) and builds upon the work of Isabel Myers and Catherine Briggs (1962) to provide a modern measure of Jungian type. Listed below are some of the many studies demonstrating the relevance of the JTI …
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iSupervise is the first online testing platform to allow remote supervised assessment. iSupervise uses the latest in internet technology to protect against the risks of cheating, prevent security breaches, and to offer users confidence in the validity of their assessment. The Challenge: The internet allows psychometric tests to be administered to applicants anywhere in the …
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