Examples of Performance Test

The Kohs Block Design Test is a cognitive test for children or adults with a mental age between
3 and 19. It is oc mainly used to test persons with language or hearing handicaps but also given
to disadvantaged and non-English-speaking children. The child is shown 17 cards with a variety
of colored designs and asked to reproduce them using a set of colored blocks. Performance is
based not just on the accuracy of the drawings but also on the examiner's observation of the
child's behavior during the test, including such factors as attention level, self-criticism, and
adaptive behavior (such as self-help, communication, and social skills). The Kohs Block Design
Test is sometimes included in other tests, such as the Merrill-Palmer and Arthur Performance

Example of a Preference Test

Kuder Preference Record n. An occupational interest inventory designed to

measure the respondent's relative levels of interest in ten occupational areas:
clerical, computational, art, music, social service, outdoor, science, persuasive,
literary, mechanical. Each item of the scale consists of three activities from which
the respondent selects the least liked and the most liked. KPR or KPR-V abbrev.
[Named after the US psychologist George Frederic ( Fritz) Kuder (1903–2000)
who published it as a commercial test in 1960]

Examples Of Personality Test

Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey

Authors: J. P. Guilford, PhD, and Wayne S. Zimmerman, PhD
The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey provides a nonclinical
description of an individual's personality characteristics for use in career
planning, counseling, and research.
The GZTS inventory is used by organizational psychologists, personnel
professionals, clinical psychologists, and counseling professionals in mental
health facilities, businesses, and educational settings to help:
Measure attributes related to personality and temperament that might help predict successful performance in
various occupations.
Identify students who may have trouble adjusting to school and the types of problems that may occur.
Assess temperamental trends that may be the source of problems and conflicts in marriage or other relationships.
Provide objective personality information to complement other data that may assist with personnel selection,
placement, and development.
Qualification Level 3
Administer To Individuals 16 years and older
Reading Level 8th grade
Completion Time 30–60 minutes (300 self-descriptive statements)
Formats Paper-and-pencil or computer administration
Report Option Interpretive Report
Q™ Local Software
Scoring Options Mail-in Scoring Service
Optical Scan Scoring
Scales 10 personality and temperament factors
Norms Nonclinical—adults, college students, high school students
Quick Facts
Scales
Symptom Scales
G - General Activity
R - Restraint
A - Ascendance
S - Sociability
E - Emotional Stability
O - Objectivity
F - Friendliness
T - Thoughtfulness
P - Personal Relations
M - Masculinity
The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) is a forced choice,
objective, non-projective personality inventory, derived from the theory of H. A.
Murray, which measures the rating of individuals in fifteen normal needs or
motives. On the EPPS there are nine statements used for each scale. Social
Desirability ratings have been done for each item, and the pairing of items
attempts to match items of approximately equal social desirability. Fifteen pairs of
items are repeated twice for the consistency scale.
Achievement : A need to accomplish tasks well
Deference: A need to conform to customs and defer to others
Order: A need to plan well and be organized
Exhibition: A need to be the center of attention in a group
Autonomy: A need to be free of responsibilities and obligations
Affiliation: A need to form strong friendships and attachments
Intraception: A need to analyze behaviors and feelings of others
Succorance: A need to receive support and attention from others
Dominance: A need to be a leader and influence others
Abasement: A need to accept blame for problems and confess errors to others
Nurturance: A need to be of assistance to others
Change: A need to be of assistance to others
Endurance: A need to follow through on tasks and complete assignments
Heterosexuality: A need to be associated with and attractive to members of the
opposite sex
Aggression: A need to express one's opinion and be critical of others
(Edwards, 1959/1985)[citation needed]
The inventory consists of 225 pairs of statements in which items from each of the
15 scales are paired with items from the other 14 plus the other fifteen pairs of
items for the optional consistency check. This leaves the total number of items
(14x15) at 210. Edwards has used the last 15 items to offer the candidate the
same item twice, using the results to calculate a consistency score. The result
will be considered valid if the consistency checks for more than 9 out of 15 paired
items. Within each pair, the subjects choose one statement as more
characteristic of themselves, reducing the social desirability factor of the test.
Due to the forced choice, the EPPS is an ipsative test, the statements are made
in relation to the strength of an individual's other needs. Hence, like personality, it
is not absolute. Results of the test are reliable, although there are doubts about
the consistency scale
The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) is a self-report inventory created
by Harrison Gough and currently published by Consulting Psychologists Press. It
was created in a similar manner to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI), but unlike the MMPI, it is not concerned with maladjustment or
clinical diagnosis, but concerned itself with more "normal" aspects of personality.
The CPI is made up of 434 true-false questions, half of which were taken from
the original version of the MMPI. [1] The test is scored on 18 scales, three of
which are validity scales. Eleven of the non-validity scales were selected by
comparing responses from various groups of people. The other four were content
validated. [1]
The test is typically used with people aged 13 years and older. It takes about 45-
60 minutes to complete.
The revised third edition of the CPI contains 434 items. This latest version
requires that the patient's false and true answers be transformed at an additional
cost into raw scale and Standard scores by the publisher, who will also provide
interpretative report writing. The older CPI with the 462 items is still available for
sale by the publisher, Consulting Psychologists Press, and comes with plastic
scoring keys and profile sheets, thus allowing each research or clinical
psychologist to score the test by hand, an admittedly less convenient but
nonetheless a less expensive alternative, one ideally suited for use in training
psychology students.[2]