The Reliability of a Promotional Job Knowledge Examination Scored by Number of Items Right and by Four Confidence Weighting Procedures and Its Corresponding Concurrent Validity Estimates Relative to Performance Criterion Ratings.

Friedland, David L.; Michael, William B.

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Publication Date: 1987

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The Reliability of a Promotional Job Knowledge Examination Scored by Number of Items Right and by Four Confidence Weighting Procedures and Its Corresponding Concurrent Validity Estimates Relative to Performance Criterion Ratings.

Friedland, David L.; Michael, William B.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, v47 n1 p179-88 Spr 1987

A sample of 153 male police officers were subjects in a test validation study with two objectives: (1) to compare reliability estimates of a 16-item objective achievement examination scored by the conventional items right formula and by four different procedures; and (2) to obtain comparative concurrent validity coefficients of scores arising from these procedures. (LMO)

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Concurrent Validity, Correlation, Police, Scoring, Test Reliability, Weighted Scores

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