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Download full textSwarthout, David; Synk, David J. – 1987
Meta-analytic techniques were used to analyze the effects of age, education, and work experience on General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) validities and test scores. The sample consisted of 30,568 subjects from 143 Specific Aptitude Test Battery (SATB) validation or revalidation studies analyzed since 1972. The effect of these three variables on…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Aptitude Tests, Correlation
Swarthout, David – 1988
The analyses of J. E. Hunter (1983) were replicated with an expanded data set. The Hunter study, the basis of the Validity Generalization system used by the United States Employment Service, contained 515 General Aptitude Test Battery validation studies. The data set in this study included these and additional studies to bring the data set to 755…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cluster Grouping, Job Applicants
