Cognitive Performance Assessment Built from an open cognitive item bank with domain and difficulty balancing. 1. All roses are flowers. Some flowers fade quickly. Therefore: Logic Difficulty: 0.55 · Discrimination: 1.14 Roses are not flowers All roses fade quickly Some roses may fade quickly No roses fade quickly 2. If every coder is curious and Ada is a coder, then: Logic Difficulty: 0.30 · Discrimination: 0.97 Cannot be determined Ada is not curious No coder is curious Ada is curious 3. No poets are dull. Some teachers are poets. Therefore: Logic Difficulty: 0.63 · Discrimination: 1.22 All teachers are dull No teachers are poets Some teachers are not dull Some poets are dull 4. Find the next number: 126, 132, 138, 144, ? Numeric Difficulty: 0.40 · Discrimination: 1.08 144 151 162 150 5. Find the next number: 25, 37, 49, 61, ? Numeric Difficulty: 0.40 · Discrimination: 1.08 74 97 61 73 6. Find the next number: 12, 15, 18, 21, ? Numeric Difficulty: 0.40 · Discrimination: 1.08 30 25 24 21 7. How many faces does a cube have? Spatial Difficulty: 0.37 · Discrimination: 1.04 6 5 7 8 8. How many sides does a hexagon have? Spatial Difficulty: 0.37 · Discrimination: 1.04 5 8 6 7 9. If you fold a paper in half twice, how many layers? Spatial Difficulty: 0.29 · Discrimination: 0.95 4 6 2 3 10. Which is the odd one out: Copper, Gold, Iron, Cloud? Classification Difficulty: 0.40 · Discrimination: 1.03 Iron Gold Cloud Copper 11. Which is the odd one out: Grapes, Apple, Orange, Helmet? Classification Difficulty: 0.40 · Discrimination: 1.03 Orange Grapes Apple Helmet 12. Which is the odd one out: Pineapple, Apple, Grapes, Pencil? Classification Difficulty: 0.40 · Discrimination: 1.03 Pineapple Apple Grapes Pencil 13. Complete analogy: Seed : Plant :: Egg : ? Verbal Difficulty: 0.41 · Discrimination: 1.08 Shell Feather Nest Bird 14. Pilot is to profession as Hammer is to ? Verbal Difficulty: 0.43 · Discrimination: 1.09 workshop tool metal nail 15. Teacher is to profession as Hammer is to ? Verbal Difficulty: 0.43 · Discrimination: 1.09 workshop metal tool nail Finish Test
