Clerical Test Battery

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Advantages

• Quick, comprehensive and cost effective.
• Good content validity.
• South African norms available.
• South African reliabilities calculated.
• Validation studies done in South Africa.
• Fairness studies done

Subtests

Measures basic vocabulary, verbal fluency and the ability to reason using words.

This test is appropriate for all jobs which require a degree of verbal ability, such as sales and administrative positions or clerical jobs.

Measures the ability to use numbers efficiently in clerical and administrative contexts.

This test assesses the ability to perform typical clerical tasks like calculating travelling expenses, working out the unit price of goods and so forth.

Measures the ability to use numbers efficiently in clerical and administrative contexts.

This test assesses the ability to perform typical clerical tasks like calculating travelling expenses, working out the unit price of goods and so forth.

This test provides a quick and reliable measure of a candidate’s ability to spell accurately.

Computer – administered. This test assesses the ability to classify names quickly and accurately into an existing electronic alphabetical filing system.

Computer-administered. This test presents three user definable passages of text that must be typed by the respondent. The test measures speed and identifies the number and nature of errors made.

Documentation

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Technical manual for the Clerical Test Battery

South African User Guide and Research Reference

Introduction to the use of the Clerical Test Battery in South Africa

Introduction to the South African Norms of the Clerical Test Battery

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Norm group	Subtests	Number
Outbound call centre selling insurance	Verbal Reasoning Numerical Ability Spelling Clerical Checking	N1
Outbound call centre applicants and incumbents (selling insurance)	Verbal Reasoning Numerical Ability Clerical Checking Spelling	N2
SA Administrative and retail	Verbal Reasoning Numerical Ability Clerical Checking Spelling	N3
SA General Population	Verbal Reasoning Numerical Ability Clerical Checking Spelling	N4
Clerical applicants to SA Police	Verbal Reasoning Spelling	N5
SA Retail applicants combined group	Clerical Checking Numerical Ability	N6
Black SA Retail applicants	Clerical Checking Numerical Ability	N7
SA Asian retail applicants	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	N8
SA Coloured retail applicants	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	N9
SA Police applicants	Clerical Checking	N10
SA Black police applicants	Clerical Checking	N11
SA White police applicants	Clerical Checking	N12
SA Asian police applicants	Clerical Checking	N13
SA Coloured police applicants	Clerical Checking	N14

Introduction to the Reliability of the Clerical Test Battery in South Africa

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Group	Type of reliability	Subtests	N0.
Outbound call centre applicants (selling insurance)	Internal consistency	Verbal Reasoning Numerical ability Clerical Checking Spelling	R1
Outbound call centre applicants and incumbents (selling insurance)	Internal consistency	Verbal Reasoning Numerical Ability Clerical Checking Spelling	R2
SA Retail clerical incumbents	Internal consistency	Verbal Reasoning Numerical ability Clerical Checking Spelling	R3
SA Retail applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	R4
SA Black retail applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	R5
SA Asian retail applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	R6
SA White retail applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	R7
SA Coloured retail applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking Numerical ability	R8
SA Police applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking	R9
SA Black police applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking	R10
SA White police applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking	R11
SA Asian police applicantss	Internal consistency	Clerical Checking	R12
SA Coloured police applicants	Internal consistency	Clerical checking	R13

 Introduction to the validity of the Clerical Test Battery in South Africa

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Study	Type of validity	Tests	Number
Correlations with LPCAT	Construct	Clerical Checking Numerical Ability	V1
CTB2 Intercorrelations	Construct	Verbal Reasoning Clerical Checking Numerical Ability Spelling	V2

Introduction to the differential item functioning of the Clerical Test Battery in South Africa

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Test	Grouping	Number
Clerical Checking	Race	D1
Clerical Checking	Disadvantaged status	Ds2
Numerical Ability	Race	D3
Numerical Ability	Disadvantaged status	D4
Spelling	Race	D5
Verbal Reasoning	Race	D6

Classification status

Classified as a psychological test by the Psychometrics Committee of the Professional Board for Psychology