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Peer reviewedCascio, Wayne F.; And Others – Personnel Psychology, 1988
Analyzes critically and integrates the legal, psychometric, and professional literature on the use and misuse of cutoff scores by managers to help make personnel decisions. Examines alternative methods in relation to legal precedents set by the courts, to psychometric principles, and to the various sets of professional guidelines. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Occupational Tests, Personnel Evaluation, Personnel Policy
Peer reviewedCope, Ronald T. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
Test scores on three pretest forms of a content-validated test were correlated with job performance ratings by social worker supervisors. The correlations predicted the job performance ratings of entry level social workers who were employed in urban settings more accurately than those of workers located in rural settings. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, Job Performance, Occupational Tests
Download full textDonahue, Lisa M.; And Others – 1995
A field study with 178 candidates for a police promotional examination was conducted to investigate the effects of "untranslated" behavioral checklists on certain psychometric properties of an assessment center. The untranslated checklist used all behavioral responses elicited by the assessment center exercises, not just those that met a…
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Evaluation Methods
Wise, Lauress – 1993
As high-stakes use of tests increases, it becomes vital that test developers and test users communicate clearly about the accuracy and limitations of the scores generated by a test after it is assembled and used. A procedure is described for portraying the accuracy of test scores. It can be used in setting accuracy targets during form construction…
Descriptors: Classification, High Stakes Tests, Item Response Theory, Military Personnel
Peer reviewedKane, Michael T. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
A proposed model for the validity of measures of professional competence treats validation as the evaluation of inferences drawn from test scores, focusing on evaluation, generalization, and extrapolation. The model is used to indicate strengths and weaknesses of assessments of professional competence: observations of performance, simulations, and…
Descriptors: Competence, Evaluation Methods, Generalization, Inferences
Wise, Lauress L. – 1992
Lessons derived from the Job Performance Measurement (JPM) Project, which is overseen by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel, for educational assessment are explored. The JPM Project was initiated to develop high fidelity measures of performance on the job that can be used to evaluate personnel…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Federal Programs
