Psychometrics Class

Ξ October 8th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Old School Papers |

Written around December 2000 – complete garbage :)

My group and I designed a test titled “So you think you’re a world traveler?” It was designed to measure a person’s world knowledge. In theory, it can be used to job screen a person for a social secretary position. The test measures whether a person has well-rounded knowledge of different countries, customs, foods, airports, currencies, capitals, and landmarks.

When designing the test, we divided up a map of the world into 6 blocks, using the 6 main continents of the world. From there, we generated 6 questions for each block using the categories of customs, foods, airports, currencies, capitals, and landmarks. (more…)