What is a psychometric test?

Psychometric tests are used to a measure psychological constructs, such as personality or aptitude. Psychometric tests need to be constructed according to psychometric principles be administered, scored and interpreted in a standardised manner. 

Career Psychology assessments have adhered to psychometric principles in there development in that they were developed in the following manner:

		Test construction according to a valid theoretical rationale;
		Test questions developed based on that theoretical rationale and focussed on assessing the construct the test purports to measure (e.g. personality traits);
		Trialling of questions and items;
		Statistical analysis of the items for reliability and other statistical properties followed by further refinement of the items on the basis of the analysis;
		Re-trialling of the items followed again by further analysis and retrialling as necessary to provide a reliable scale;
		Validation research to ensure that the test constructs measure what they purport to measure and to assess whether the test can also predict meaningful outcomes such as performance;
		Standardisation and development of a norm group for comparative purposes;
		Publishing of all the above in the test's technical manual for peer review.

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