UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE

Psychological Assessment
Psych 709
Psychometric aspects of Testing
Assignment 2
Due date: 20 September 2016
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS.

TOTAL: 100

Your assignment should not be longer that 5 pages (Double spaced).

1.

Does the manual for the Aptitude Tests for School Beginners (ASB) fulfill your
expectations?

(10)

2.

Critically examine how the norms for the ASB were established.

(10)

3.1.

What attempts were made by the test developers to reduce the error variance of
the ASB (i.e. improve test reliability).

3.3

(5)

Comment on the strength of the reliability coefficients for each of the sub-tests.
What does it mean?

3.4

Mandys raw scores on the ASB were:

(10)
Reasoning:

Numerical:

Gestalt:

65

Between which two values are her true score for each of the sub-tests? (Show
calculations).
4.1

(9)

What construct is being measured by this test and how will you define the
construct? Which aspects of this construct is not measured by the test?
(Need to research additional material for the answer.)

(10)

4.2

What type of validity was established for the ASB?

(2)

4.2

Discuss how well the tests predict success in Grade 1 (the strength of the
correlation coefficient). Which test(s) is the best predictor of success?
(8)

The analysis sheet of the MCQ test that was written on 26 Augustt are on IKAMVA,
please consult those results to answer the following:
5.1

Determine the item difficulty (p) and discrimination index (D) for first 15 MCQ
questions. (Answer this question in a tabular format i.e. a table).

5.2.
5.2
5.3

Which item(s) could you remove altogether from the exam? Why?
Which items are working well? Why?
Which distractor(s) would you revise? Why?
(15)