Short course Psychometric Assessment Service (PAS) (SC)
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-19 | - |
| 2024-01-01 | 2023-10-15 |
| 2024-05-02 | 2024-01-31 |
Program Overview
Our Psychometric Assessment Service (PAS) run training programmes leading to the British Psychological Society (BPS) Certificates of Competence in the use of Ability tests (formerly Occupational Testing Level A).
Introducing the use of psychological testing in an organisation can lead to a range of benefits. Typically, psychological tests can be used for the purpose of developing a more robust recruitment and selection process by ensuring the best person, both in terms of ability and/or personality gets the job.
This in turn can lead to:
Ability and personality tests are also commonly used in supporting employee career progression and professional development in order to reflect on the strengths and areas in need of development.
Studying on the combined course, employees can become qualified to administer, score, write and feedback psychological tests for occupational purposes and gain entry onto the British Psychological Society’s Register of Qualified Test Users
Certification is an established way to demonstrate competence in the use of ability and aptitude tools, and can be an asset for those seeking/following a career in human resource management or psychology.
This course is a 5 day intensive programme for Certification of Test Administrators or test users. Courses take place in Carlisle, Lancaster, Ambleside and London or can be delivered on your organisation's premises.
Delivery Dates
Monday 14
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May to Friday 18th
May, Fusehill Street, Carlisle
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Course Details
Program Outline
Course outline
Course summary
The Psychometric Assessment Service (PAS) are providers of training in occupational testing and assessment. Building on 20 years of experience, our assessors, chartered with the British Psychological Society offer both test administration and training in test use.
Our courses fulfil the requirements for the British Psychological Society Certificate of Competence in Occupational testing, test admin: ability and test user: ability. Our service can be used to administer psychological testing in a variety of settings including:-
We also offer bespoke services for test development. This bespoke service will be of particular interest to employers who are seeking these services, or support. The bespoke offer will be tailored to individual employer needs, and will be delivered by the Psychometric Services lead staff. Dependent upon the employer requirements, the University staff can offer an end-to-end service from job description through to candidate selection, or can be involved in just part of the process.
Whilst no prior formal qualifications are required to enter the course, it is important that you have the ability to use statistics. These form a small part of the overall course and if you have any questions regarding this please contact the course lead, Julie Taylor.
Modules
Programme Specification
Programme specification (PDF)
Assessment, Feedback, and Teaching and Learning methods
Full details are available in the
programme specification
.Timetables
The teaching timetable should be available from the end of August. Access to the timetable is through the Student Hub – you will be able to access the Student Hub after you have completed online registration. The teaching day is 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday; please keep your other commitments open until confirmation of your teaching timetable, and bear in mind that many courses will offer placements or fieldwork which sometimes extends into the evenings and weekends.
