What are tests/questionnaires?
A psychometric test is a standardised method for assessing a mental or psychological attribute such as a skill, an ability or a dimension of personality. To say it is ‘standardised’ means that the assessment is made in a standardised manner (i.e. in the same way for all people and from occasion to occasion), that the person’s responses to the test are recorded and scored in a standardised manner (e.g. by the use of a fixed scoring key) and that the results are interpreted in a standardised manner (e.g. by comparing the scores obtained by an individual to those obtained by a large sample of people who have taken the test previously).
