Topics covered in training for Test User: Occupational, Ability (including Assistant Test User):

• Introduction to testing
• Administering tests
• Maintaining security and confidentiality of the test materials and the test data
• Ability and aptitude
• The basic principles of scaling and standardisation
• Basic principles of norm-referenced interpretation
• Test theory – Classical test theory and reliability
• Test theory – Item response theory
• Validity and utility
• Relating assessment to job requirements
• Deciding when psychometric tests should or should not be used
• Interpreting test results
• Providing oral feedback
• Providing written feedback