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Psychological Assessment in the Workplace: A Manager's Guide by Mark Cook

By Mark Cook

This booklet covers the evaluation of individuals in the place of work. Written in jargon unfastened language, it bargains a advisor to mental evaluation that may be utilized by managers of their daily paintings. each one bankruptcy will in particular hide an review perform after which discover the problems surrounding it, following this dialogue with a case research. principles for try choice, information on evaluate centre perform and illustrations of effectively labored routines also are incorporated.

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So does the candidate also need more time? How much more? • Time limits also present difficult decisions when assessing people with dyslexia. Schools and universities often use a blanket extra 50% time allowance in written exams, but this is very crude and unlikely to result in accurate assessment. • The normative data for most tests assume a particular time limit has been used, and are not valid otherwise. • In the long term, we need a new generation of ability tests that do not depend on time limits.

The BPS Psychological Testing Centre keeps a register of verified assessors. This chapter breaks the testing process down into the five main areas recommended by the BPS’s TAC. A training course or workshop dealing with test administration will usually begin with an introduction to psychometric testing and tests before moving on to the administration process. C. Recommendation: Make sure that anyone who administers psychological tests in your organisation has been trained to do it correctly, and that they have a BPS Certificate at the right level.

Get going! 4 A typical checklist for test administration Recommendation: Make sure that people know they will be given tests, both when you invite them and again when they arrive on the day. ADMINISTERING THE TESTS Test Administration Card It is essential that everyone who does a particular test gets the same instructions. If they do not, their scores may not be comparable, nor can you be certain your data will be comparable with the normative data in the test manual. A test administration card is designed to standardise conditions for that particular test, and to ensure consistency over all test sessions at a single centre, as well as between different test centres.

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