Update on Testing and Equal Opportunity.

Robertson, David E.

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Publication Date: 1977

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Update on Testing and Equal Opportunity

Robertson, David E.

Personnel Journal, 56, 3, 144-147, Mar 77

Five issues (employer motivation, criteria selection, content and construct validity, differential validity, burden of proof) are discussed because questions are raised about them or because they are pivotal issues in court cases which were decided in the five years since Griggs v. Duke Power (test bias). (TA)

Descriptors: Court Litigation, Employment Qualifications, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Occupational Tests, Personnel Policy, Personnel Selection, Test Validity, Testing

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII

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