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Hunsucker, John – Camping Magazine, 1993
Discusses options for the hiring, testing, training, and supervision of lifeguards. Stresses the responsibility of camp directors in hiring properly trained lifeguards to ensure camper safety. Includes a precamp screening test of lifeguard knowledge and skills. (LP)
Descriptors: Camping, Occupational Tests, Personnel Evaluation, Personnel Selection

Kuder, Frederic; Diamond, Esther E.; Zytowski, Donald G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1998
Predictive validity, generally taken to be the prime validity that occupationally normed interest inventories should demonstrate, is dependent on the capacity of an instrument to differentiate between occupations. A comparison of two methods of differentiation shows that a method using proportions of each occupational group to assign item-scoring…
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Occupational Tests, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Practitioner Methodology for Entry-Level Hiring Assessment: Issues for Academic Outcomes Assessment.

Kimball, Bob – Journal of Education for Business, 1998
Responses from 51 of 240 regional sales managers identified skills and characteristics important for sales personnel. However, few used formal tests or instruments to assess those skills in potential employees. (SK)
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Entry Workers, Occupational Tests, Personnel Selection

Coffee, Karen – Public Personnel Management, 1996
The following issues should be considered in charging fees to job applicants to take examinations in public agencies: legal authority to charge, purpose of fee, disposition of the money, how much to charge, whether refunds are given, effect on affirmative action, waivers for inability to pay, effect on attendance at the exam, and how much revenue…
Descriptors: Fees, Financial Exigency, Job Applicants, Occupational Tests
Chun, Christian W. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2006
This article presents an analysis of Ordinate Corporation's PhonePass Spoken English Test-10. The company promotes this product as being a useful assessment tool for screening job candidates' ability in spoken English. In the real-life domain of the work environment, one of the primary target language use tasks involves extended production…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Speech Tests, Screening Tests
Shannon, Gregory A. – 1988
Candidates who had taken examinations for certification required by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) were surveyed to acquire feedback about the effectiveness of score interpretive information given to test takers. Those sampled included 488 passers and 389 failers of the Inventory Management (IM) examination and 457…
Descriptors: Certification, Data Interpretation, Failure, Feedback
Faley, Robert H.; Kleiman, Lawrence S. – 1984
This paper reviews 12 Title VII court cases litigated since 1978 to assess implications of recent professional and legal guidelines regarding criterion-related validity of paper and pencil tests used by employers to prove job relatedness. Major topics important to an understanding of predictor criterion, including procedural, and data analysis and…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Guidelines, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests
Cooper, Douglas – Educational Technology, 1974
A look at Ontario, Canada's, testing program for establishing standards in apprenticeship training. (HB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Career Counseling
Blake, Richard – J Appl Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Interest Inventories, Occupational Tests, Pictorial Stimuli, Test Reliability
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Trade and Industrial Education Service. – 1962
THIS WILL SERVE AS A GUIDE TO THOSE WHO UNDERTAKE THE ASSIGNMENT OF WRITING AN OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCY TEST IN A SPECIALIZED FIELD, WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH A TEACHER EDUCATOR, FACULTY ADVISOR, OR OTHER QUALIFIED STAFF MEMBER. INFORMATION IS GIVEN ON THE PURPOSE AND NATURE OF OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCY TESTS, TEST DEVELOPMENT PROCEDURES, TEST…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Occupational Tests, Performance Tests, Test Construction
A Universal Model for Evaluating Basic Electronic Courses in Terms of Field Utilization of Training.
Air Force Occupational Measurement Center, Lackland AFB, TX.
The main purpose of the Air Force project was to develop a universal model to evaluate usage of basic electronic principles training. The criterion used by the model to evaluate electronic theory training is a determination of the usefulness of the training vis-a-vis the performance of assigned tasks in the various electronic career fields. Data…
Descriptors: Electronics, Evaluation, Military Service, Models
Dann, Joyce E.; Abrahams, Norman M. – 1973
The Navy Vocational Interest Inventory (NVII) was developed to help recruits determine the ratings corresponding most closely with their vocational preferences and in which they would probably be most satisfied. Recently, 15 occupational scales were constructed for the NVII to reflect the degree of relationship between an individual's interests…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Enlisted Personnel, Interest Inventories, Occupational Tests
Weinlander, Albertina Abrams – 1971
This study guide contains intensive review and practice tests as an aid in preparing for the Grades 1-8 Teaching Area Examination of the National Teacher Examination. The Teaching Area Examinations attempt to measure competency to teach in a specific field. [The Common Examinations are covered in the publication, "Barron's How to Prepare for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Teachers, Occupational Tests, Standardized Tests

Holt, Thaddeus – Personnel Psychology, 1977
This paper was originally delivered in July of 1975, within a few weeks of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of "Albemarle Paper Company v. Moody". Its intent is to shed light on the interrelationship between the practice of industrial psychology and the judicial process in operation. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Employment Qualifications, Government Role, Guidelines

Brookings, Jeffrey B.; Bolton, Brian – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1986
The vocational interests of disabled adults can be differentiated and are structured in a way that corresponds closely with the interest dimensions of other populations. The United States Employment Service Interest Inventory (USES-II) is recommended for vocational rehabilitation counseling with disabled adults. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Disabilities, Factor Structure