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Download full textHolden, Ronald R. – 1993
Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the use of response latencies in psychological assessment. Some research has suggested that response times associated with answering personality and integrity questionnaires may be useful in differentiating among honest responders and individuals who are lying. Using an experimental paradigm…
Descriptors: Employment Interviews, Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Lying
Waters, Sue; Winterstein, Mani – 1991
A study was conducted to determine the extent to which psychometric testing (the measurement of various aspects of human behavior, such as ability, personality, or interests, using psychological tests) is used in the recruitment practices of small businesses. The project also developed a course consisting of five modular units covering the process…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Curriculum Development, Employment Interviews, Employment Practices
Daniel, Mark – 1983
As a consequence of a validation study based on over 200 skilled technicians employed in engine manufacturing, seven aptitude tests were administered to 50 applicants in June 1982. This report presents correlations between test scores and three criteria (math grades, job performance ratings, and a composite) for the 26 people who entered the…
Descriptors: Adults, Apprenticeships, Aptitude Tests, Correlation
Northcraft, Gregory B. – 1983
Attribution theory suggests that the existence of affirmative action programs may lead individuals to assume that a female or minority affirmative action appointee was hired for reasons other than legitimate qualifications for the job. This inference of incompetence could pose a tremendous barrier to competent women or minority individuals being…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Attribution Theory, Bias, Competence
Carfello-Walters, Cathy J. – 1987
The relationship between cumulative grade point average (GPA) and the time needed to secure employment in the field of study was studied with 108 business college graduates during 1982-1984. Information was obtained through a computer listing of graduates from Robert Morris College, a private Illinois institution that provides intensive career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns
Talbert, Joan E. – 1984
Based on an institutional-contingency view, this study focuses on ways in which public and private school sectors in six San Francisco area counties embody different organizational logistics and authority principles, including rational-legal, traditional, and local-market. Results suggest that, among other characteristics, nonreligious private…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Miguel, Richard J.; Foulk, Robert C. – 1984
A study examined the high school graduates' perceptions and employers' reports of hiring and job performance standards and employment outcomes one year after high school. Longitudinal data were collected from 522 students at the beginning and end of the senior school year and 325 of these students (62 percent) one year after graduation. Employers…
Descriptors: Career Education, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment
Sie, Maureen A.; Johnson, Geoffrey – 1978
Eighty three applicants for empployment in a hardware supply manufacturing company participated in a study of the effects of anxiety, praise and the awareness of time remaining on employment testing. Two control groups and three testing groups--praise, time, and praise and time--were administered the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), a…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Aptitude Tests, Job Applicants
PDF pending restorationDroege, Robert C.; And Others – 1977
The following tests and techniques have been developed by the U.S. Emloyment Service for the measurement of occupational aptitude, clerical skills, literacy skills, and occupational interest: General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), Nonreading Aptitude Test Battery (NATB), Specific Aptitude Test Battery (SATB), Clerical Skills Tests, Basic…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Clerical Occupations, Interest Inventories
Perrill, Norman K.; Stopek, Carrie D. – 1981
Employee selection and appraisal criteria were examined in 44 organizations to (1) test a new data gathering instrument, (2) determine the extent to which student interviewers and organizational interviewees had similar perceptions of the importance of the selection and appraisal criteria used in that organization, and (3) continue and expand an…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria
Williamson, John A.; Campbell, Lloyd P.
Findings of this study indicate that preservice teachers engaged in student teaching tend to become less humanistic and more authoritarian in their relations with students as the student teaching experience progresses. In addition, inner-city student teachers tend to be more custodial before they begin student teaching than are suburban student…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Class Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Human Relations
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1974
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Clerical Workers, Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1974
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Criteria, Cutting Scores
California Association for Educational Media and Technology, Concord. – 1975
A model classification for media paraprofessionals was constructed in order to establish salaries, personnel qualifications, useful training programs, administrative procedures, and standardized terminology. An analysis was made of such job elements as type of work, its difficulty and responsibility, supervisory responsibility, administrative…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Classification, Communications, Educational Media
Thomas, Patricia J. – 1975
The Navy's selection tests are not as valid for minority personnel as they are for the majority group, the utility of alternative test composites was investigated. The samples were drawn from all students attending a Class "A" school, the first school a recruit goes to in order to learn a technical skill, during 1971-1972. Comparisons…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Cutting Scores
