The Observation assessment measures a person’s skill at noticing details
and paying attention to instructions and demonstrations. The video
scenes and questions are based on the actual demands of the workplace
and show individuals in various workplace settings. Test takers are
asked to pay careful attention to the steps to be followed in a process,
to safety procedures, and to quality control standards. The complexity
of each observation task is influenced by the number of variables
involved, the strength of direction to pay attention to certain details,
and the number and strength of the distractors (e.g., extraneous
details) given.
The assessment contains multiple-choice questions at four levels of
complexity with Level 6 being the most complex. Although Level 3 is the
least complex, it still assesses a level of observation skill well
above no skill at all. The levels build on each other by incorporating
the skills assessed at the preceding levels. Each level is represented
by three scenes, and each scene is followed by three questions.
