BESPOKE & INNOVATIVE PSYCHOMETRIC ASSESSMENTS

No matter how unusual your recruitment or assessment challenge, Psy-Fi has the experience and expertise to design and deliver a cost-effective solution.

Drawing on over 18 years experience, we know how to create tools that measure exactly what you are looking for, whilst emulating the look and feel of your organisation’s voice and values. The scope of our bespoke service is boundless to mirror your company branding throughout the candidate journey and creating custom ability tests or personality questionnaire/ scales based on custom scenarios.

We take a collaborative approach to bespoke design, working with you to understand your role requirements and then creating tools based on a range of job analysis techniques. Bespoke psychometrics are the best way to convey your organisational ethos and create a lasting impression in your candidates.

Commissioning us to develop your own in-house test has a number of advantages:

• It allows you use a psychometric test which just focuses on those behaviors and values which are relevant to you.
• The administration, interpretation and reporting procedures can be customized to streamline with your wider HR processes and functions.
• You own the copyright.

OUR PSYCHOMETRIC DESIGN SERVICES

 Program Evaluation       

Reviewing the program with key stakeholders to fully  During this requirements-gathering phase, our content developers and psychometricians conduct a full audit of existing test materials and other relevant documentation. The outcome of the program evaluation is a summary report that includes our best-practice recommendations.

Job/ Organizational Values Alignment                         

Determining what to assess through a systematic process is critical to the validity of a test. Our content developers and psychometricians are experts at employing evidence based methodologies to systematically determine the knowledge, skills and abilities most relevant to assess. The outcome from the analysis is the creation of a test blueprint; a detailed plan on what will be tested.

Test Design                        

Our experience in meeting the diverse needs of global clients from all sectors of industry means we excel in the critical area of test design. Our test development professionals recommend test administration methods and item types which will ensure that fair and consistent standards are applied in assessing test-takers’ knowledge, skills and abilities in the most appropriate manner.

Test Development                        

Good tests require good content. We are  team experts in developing content worldwide for both traditional types of items and innovative formats. For maximum
flexibility, we offer two basic models of item development services:
Workshop facilitation model
In this model, the client supplies the SMEs who will be responsible for writing and reviewing test items. Our expert provide item writing training and workshop
facilitation in both virtual and in-person environments. We recognize that writing good test questions is both art and science. Armed with years of developing item-writing best practices, we can train our clients’ subject matter experts to produce high-quality test questions that assess relevant knowledge and skills effectively and efficiently.
Contracted services model
This model is designed for clients who wish to delegate the test development process. We play an active role in designing and developing psychometric tests. The test owner provides high-level oversight through mutually-agreed upon key performance indicators (KPIs).

Psychometric Analysis                      

Through the use of two major methodologies, Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory, our psychometricians can conduct rigorous analysis to monitor and evaluate the performance of tests and individual items. We provide the monitoring results to clients for use in improving the measurement quality of the tests.
Classical Test Theory
Classical Test Theory (CTT) is the traditional method of describing how scores behave on tests. CTT makes few assumptions about candidates or items and seeks to
describe variation in observed test scores. Using CTT, item key and option statistics are generated which describe the reliability of the test, the difficulty of the items and how well they discriminate high-performing and poor-performing test takers regarding the content being assessed.
Item Response Theory
Item Response Theory (IRT) models are often employed for high-stakes testing. IRT is based on the concept that the probability of a correct response is a function of
the test taker’s ability and certain item parameters. The cornerstone of the application of IRT is a calibrated item bank – items whose parameters are known through
previous administration of the items to a sufficient number of test takers. Our psychometricians are experts in developing calibrated item banks and applying IRT for
psychometric analysis.