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Sung, Yong H.; And Others – 1983
This report presents results of a concurrent validation study for the Chicago District Council of Carpenters Apprentice and Trainee Program. Its purpose was to develop a fair screening device for applicant selection. Advanced apprentice carpenters in three specialities--construction, cabinet making, and floor covering--were administered the Ball…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Aptitude Tests, Carpentry, Correlation
Download full textMcCray, Paul – 1979
The purpose of this publication is to review each of the Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association sample testing standards as well as to provide insight and understanding into the underlying purposes of the guidelines. The first of three sections focuses on those standards designed to insure that a work sample actually measures what…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Job Performance, Job Skills, Occupational Tests
Shaw, James B.; McCormick, Ernest J. – 1976
The study was directed towards the further exploration of the use of attribute ratings as the basis for establishing the job component validity of tests, in particular by using different methods of combining "attribute-based" data with "job analysis" data to form estimates of the aptitude requirements of jobs. The primary focus…
Descriptors: Ability, Cognitive Tests, Factor Analysis, Job Analysis
Sung, Yong H.; Dong, Hei-Ki – 1984
The Ball Aptitude Battery (BAB) is a multiple ability test battery of specific work skills. It is designed for use in career counseling and personnel selection. The 14 BAB tests yield 16 ability scores: Clerical, Idea Fluency, Tonal Memory, Pitch Descrimination, Inductive Reasoning, Word Association, Writing Speed, Paper Folding, Vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Accountants, Aircraft Pilots, Aptitude Tests, Carpentry
Peer reviewedCory, Charles H. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1977
This article presents predictive validity data for on-job performance for a set of computerized Graphic and Interactive Processing (GRIP) tests in conjunction with data for both experimental paper-and-pencil and operational tests. Validity coefficients for job element and global criteria are reported for four different jobs. (See also EJ 161 400).…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
A longitudinal study was conducted to evaluate the U.S. Employment Service's Specific Aptitude Test Battery (SATB) for plumber/pipe fitter from three aspects: technical adequacy of the research; fairness to minorities; and usefulness in the selection of individuals for training as plumber/pipe fitter apprentices. The validation sample consisted of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Apprenticeships
Gavin, Anne T. – 1977
Content validity involves a judgment that all knowledges, skills, abilities, and other worker characteristics (KSAOs) needed for successful job performance (or a specified portion, the job content domain), have been adequately sampled by the tests used for employee selection and promotion decision making. The model outlines the procedure for…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Equivalency Tests, Government Employees, Job Analysis
Heath, W. D., III; And Others – 1975
A study was done to determine the relationships between the revised Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI) work-dimension scores and job ability-requirement estimates and the ability test scores of job incumbents and graduate trainees in related vocational/technical education programs. (The OAI is an instrument containing 622 work elements which are…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude, Employees, Employment
Ruch, William W. – 1972
Statistical, legal and moral problems involved in following the EEOC guidelines are described. The guidelines require separate data for minority and non-minority groups with differential cut off scores for aptitude tests which have a racial bias. Problems reviewed include: identification of racial bias in tests is difficult; giving one race an…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Civil Rights, Decision Making, Employment Problems
Backman, Margaret E. – 1974
The Fundamental Achievement Series (FAS) is designed to cover a range of ability from basic literacy to approximately the eighth grade. These tests are used in the employment or educational placement of adults and adolescents who have not been exposed to formal education, or the educationally disadvantaged. The FAS contains a Verbal and a…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adults
Military Testing Association. – 1976
The 75 papers included in these conference proceedings discuss testing conducted by the different brances of the armed forces. The importance of relating necessary job skills to the skills measured by the tests administered to the job applicants is emphasized. Various evaluation methods--including peer rating, aptitude testing, adaptive testing,…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conference Reports
1975
The 62 papers presented at the 1975 conference of the Military Testing Association cover almost all areas of military and occupational assessment and evaluation, and are arranged in 19 "common subject-matter groupings": Symposium (on Aptitude Testing), Training Extension Courses, Computerized Testing, Task Validation and Qualification…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Certification, Computer Assisted Instruction
