KSA Legal Compliance & Ethical Assessment Practices 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Test security is breached when a candidate shares live exam questions online. Ethically, the assessor's organization should FIRST:
- Sue the candidate for breach of contract
- Assess the extent of exposure and determine whether test integrity is compromised (Correct answer)
- Immediately retire all current test forms
- Notify the media to warn other candidates
Correct answer: Assess the extent of exposure and determine whether test integrity is compromised
The first step after a security breach is to assess the scope of exposure to determine the impact on test integrity before deciding remediation actions.
Question 2: Which principle of the APA Ethics Code most directly governs a KSA assessor's obligation to accurately represent the limitations of an assessment tool?
- Autonomy
- Fidelity and Responsibility
- Integrity (Correct answer)
- Justice
Correct answer: Integrity
The Integrity principle requires psychologists and assessors to be honest and accurate, including acknowledging the limitations of their methods and findings.
Question 3: An organization uses a personality test that has not been validated for the specific job family being assessed. This practice violates which UGESP requirement?
- The record-keeping requirement
- The requirement that selection procedures be valid for the specific job (Correct answer)
- The adverse impact monitoring requirement
- The applicant flow data requirement
Correct answer: The requirement that selection procedures be valid for the specific job
UGESP requires that any selection procedure be validated for the specific job or job family for which it is used; generic or off-label use is not permissible.
Question 4: When a candidate requests access to their own assessment results under privacy regulations, the ethical assessor should:
- Deny access to protect proprietary test content
- Provide scores and interpretive information in an understandable format (Correct answer)
- Redirect the candidate to legal counsel
- Share results only if the candidate's employer consents
Correct answer: Provide scores and interpretive information in an understandable format
Candidates generally have a right to receive their scores and meaningful feedback; assessors must balance transparency with protecting test security.
Question 5: A KSA assessor learns that a panel member is the cousin of one applicant. The most appropriate action is to:
- Allow participation but require the panel member to score last
- Remove the panel member from evaluating that applicant to avoid bias (Correct answer)
- Have the applicant withdraw from the process
- Document the relationship and proceed normally
Correct answer: Remove the panel member from evaluating that applicant to avoid bias
A familial relationship creates a conflict of interest; removing the panel member from that applicant's evaluation preserves objectivity and legal defensibility.
Question 6: Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires federal contractors with contracts over a specified threshold to take affirmative action for:
- Veterans of the Vietnam War era
- Qualified individuals with disabilities (Correct answer)
- Minority-owned subcontractors
- Workers displaced by automation
Correct answer: Qualified individuals with disabilities
Section 503 mandates that federal contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance qualified individuals with disabilities.
Question 7: If an assessment tool yields different factor structures across demographic groups, this is evidence of a lack of:
- Test-retest reliability
- Measurement invariance (Correct answer)
- Alternate-form equivalence
- Standard error of measurement
Correct answer: Measurement invariance
Measurement invariance means a test measures the same constructs in the same way across groups; differential factor structure indicates it may not be comparable across groups.
KSA Legal Compliance & Ethical Assessment Practices 4
Test security is breached when a candidate shares live exam questions online.
Ethically, the assessor's organization should FIRST: