Ability
Calculation, Checking, Coding, Filing, Keyboarding, Numerical Ability, and Verbal Reasoning.
What is the ASVAB Career Exploration Program (ASVAB CEP) designed for?
It is designed to assist high school and postsecondary students with career planning, whether students plan to enter the workforce, military, or other college/vocational programs.
Define Aptitude Test
measure a person’s performance on selected tasks to predict how that person will perform sometime in the future or in a different situation.
In the Minnesota Clerical Test (MCT), there are 200 pairs of ___ and 200 pairs of ___, and in a specified amount of time, the examinee must correctly select the pairs with elements that are identical.
Numbers and Names
These two professional school entrance exams are used for law and medical school admissions, respectively.
LSAT and MCAT
TOPIC: GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS (GRE)
What is it called when the questions given to the test taker are dependent partially on the answers the test taker has provided to previous questions?
Adaptive Testing
What kind of jobs can someone with Mechanical Ability be successful in? Name at least 3.
Engineers, mechanics, millwrights, machine operators, tool setters, and tradepersons
Why do organizations use the Differential Aptitude Tests for Personal and Career Assessment (DAT for PCA)?
To evaluate a job applicant’s strengths and weaknesses and to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their hiring decisions.
What are Admissions tests?
(sometimes referred to as entrance exams or academic ability tests) are designed to predict performance in a particular educational program.
What is the oldest and most famous musical ability test?
Seashore Measures of Musical Talents
This graduate admissions exam consists of 100 analogy items, such as “PLANE : AIR: CAR : (a. submarine, b. fish, c. land, d. pilot)”
Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
What are examples of someone with Psychomotor Abilities? Name at least 3.
Arm-Hand Steadiness, Finger Dexterity, Manual Dexterity, Multi-Limb Coordination, Static Strength, and Visual-Motor Skills (Eye-Hand Coordination)
How many aptitude scores are in the subtests of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), and name at least 3.
9 Aptitude Scores
Verbal Aptitude, Numerical Aptitude, Spatial Aptitude, Form Perception, Clerical Perception, Motor Coordination, Finger Dexterity, Manual Dexterity, and General Learning Ability.
What is Checking
is the ability to quickly and accurately check verbal and numerical information (names, addresses, code numbers and telephone numbers, etc.) against a target
What are the 3 subtests for The General Clerical Test–Revised (GCT-R)?
clerical, numerical, and verbal
Across admissions studies, this measure, other than SAT scores, has consistently shown the strongest correlation with future academic success.
High School GPA (HSGPA)
What are the two tests that are related to art appreciation and artistic ability?
Meier-Seashore Art Judgment Tests and Meier Art Test of Aesthetic Perception.
What are the seven tests from the Clerical Abilities Battery (CAB)?
Filing, copying information, comparing information, using tables, proofreading, basic math skills, and numerical reasoning.
What is Manual Dexterity
is the ability to make precisely coordinated movements with your hand, with your hand and arm, or with two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
The Purdue Pegboard Test provides five separate scores. One is the combined “R + L + B.” What do the letters represent?
Right hand, Left hand, and Both hands
Reliability coefficients for both the GRE General Test and its Subject Tests, as measured by the KR-20 formula, typically fall within this range.
high .80s to .90s
Name at least 3 other abilities that are available for assessing.
Food services, industrial skills, legal skills, medical office, retail sales, and transcription.
The Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) is a test battery designed to measure vocationally relevant abilities. Who can take this test battery?
Middle through high school students, college students, and adults.
What is Psychomotor ability
refers to one’s capacity to perform body motor movements (e.g., movement of fingers, hands, legs, and body) with precision, coordination, or strength
Although the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test (BMCT) was re-normed in 2005, what is ONE of the two major validity concerns remain regarding its norming and content?
(1) some items portray mechanical concepts involving objects that females may be less familiar with than males, or (2) separate norming data for males, females, and minorities was not reported.
The PLAN Program, designed for 10th graders as part of the ACT system, includes four academic tests plus 4 additional components. Name all of the additional components.
(a) students’ needs assessment, (b) high school course and grade information, (c) the UNIACT Interest Inventory, and (d) Educational Opportunity Services (EOS)