In-tray Exercise - Psychometric Glossary
A type of simulation aimed at assessing a subject's analytical and organisation skills, an in-tray exercise involves sorting a managing a hypothetical inbox. The subject is presented with an inbox and must sort, respond to, and classify the e-mails, magazine clippings, press releases etc efficiently. This differs from an e-tray exercise as it is usually paper-based and static (i.e. no new information arrives during the task).
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Inductive Reasoning, Industrial Psychology or I/O Psychology, Intelligence Test, Inventory, Ipsative Test, IQ Test (Intelligence Quotient Test), Item Bank, Item Response Theory (IRT)
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