Welcome to AI Situational Judgement Tests: Comparing the Leading Providers.
Comparing the Leading SJT Providers
Situational Judgement Tests assess how candidates make decisions in context. AI is increasingly used to score responses, generate scenarios, and scale SJTs across large populations.
Because SJTs blend judgement, values, and role context, AI can either enhance realism — or obscure what is actually being measured.
How can Rob Williams Assessment help?
AI works best when it is paired with robust psychometrics. That means clear constructs, credible evidence, and defensible decision rules. Rob Williams Assessment supports organisations with:
- Technical psychometric manual checking or creation: currently working on two of these for clients. We’ve previously created SJT and IRT-based aptitude manuals for the Civil Service, SJT personality and ability tests for the Army, and verbal/numerical reasoning and literacy/numeracy test manuals for IBM Kenexa.
- Reviewing the potential application of AI within your organisation? A short, evidence-led review can clarify where AI adds insight — and where traditional expert judgement remains essential.
- Assessment strategy: simulations, SJTs, and psychometric tools that provide stronger evidence than profiles alone
- Vendor evaluation: independent due diligence on claims, outputs, and fairness
- Validation and reliability checks, or new research
Contact Rob Williams Assessment Ltd
E: rrussellwilliams@hotmail.co.uk
M: 077915 06395
If you want a broader introduction to AI-enabled assessment design, you may find these helpful:
Named Vendor Comparison
Korn Ferry
Product: Korn Ferry Assess
Focus: leadership and professional judgement.
Advantages
- Strong contextual validity
- Clear linkage to leadership frameworks
Disadvantages
- Less flexible
- Higher cost
Best suited to: leadership and professional roles.
SHL
Product: SHL Situational Judgement Tests
Advantages
- Strong validation
- Defensible scoring models
Disadvantages
- AI enhances scoring, not construct clarity
Best suited to: graduate and early-career hiring.
Key Psychometric Reality
AI can scale SJT scoring, but it cannot define “good judgement” without clear construct rules.
Call Rob Williams at 077915 06395, or email rrussellwilliams@hotmail.co.uk
to discuss situational judgement test designs.
For general background, see Wikipedia’s introductions to
artificial intelligence and psychometrics.
You can ask me any psychometrics question!
Rob can advise based on his 25 years psychometric test experience.
He has designed tests for leading UK test publishers (TalentQ, Kenexa IBM and CAPPFinity). Plus, most of the leading independent school test publishers: GL Assessment ; Cambridge Assessment ; Hodder Education, and the ISEB.
- Firstly, Using AI to Build Better Psychometric Tests
- Secondly, Using AI for Validation in Psychometric Test Design
- Thirdly, Using AI with psychometric test item writing
- And then next, AI and job analysis in psychometric test design
- Then next, Why AI Needs Situational Judgement Tests
- And then next, AI in Psychometric test design
- Then next, AI aptitude test design
- AI situational judgement test design
- Then next, AI Readiness test design
- And then next Psychometricians guide to using LLMs in interviews
- Plus next, our Psychometrician’s guide to using AI to improve candidate experience
- Psychometricians 2026 Guide interview intelligence systems
- And then next our Psychometricians guide to scaling AI recruitment 2026
- Finally, AI Assessments: Best Practice for Valid, Fair Psychometrics
(C) 2026 Rob Williams Assessment. This article is educational and not legal advice. Always align to your local jurisdiction, counsel, and internal governance requirements.