The state of Washington's Department of Personnel has adopted an Internet system for online job application, screening, testing, scoring, and interview referral. Candidate certifications are tailored to job skill requirements specified by personnel managers, giving managers flexible access to a pool of high-quality job candidates. (SK)

This paper is about a court case decided by the U. S. Supreme Court in 1971. Although attorneys recognize that the case is important to businesses, its impact on colleges and universities has been explored by only a few. As this paper will show, "Griggs v. Duke Power" may have enormously boosted the number of students in college and may…

The Occupational Report (OR) is a computer-generated report that provides occupational information for planning vocational rehabilitation services. Input data includes raw scores from the USES (United States Employment Service) Interest Inventory and raw scores from either the General Aptitude Test Battery or the Non-Reading Aptitude Test Battery.…

The age decrement model has traditionally been a fairly popular model of the human life span. This model has the basic premise that with increasing age there is a corresponding decrease in a wide range of abilities. Not all research has agreed with the unqualified age decrement model. This study examined the relationship between an…

The results of the first national administration of the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) Examinations in industrial occupational competency are reported. (AG)

The Vocational Assessment Record (VAR), a management system designed to accompany a token economy based on work behaviors in handicapped and nonhandicapped high school and adult basic education students with a minimum of instructor time and effort, is described. Among ways in which the VAR is said to be different from other motivational and…

This paper lists interest and work value inventories which are of proven or potential use in vocational counseling. Each entry includes information about item and response types, for whom it is intended, the kinds of scales and scores employed, and whether interpretation materials are available. The list represents those which are known to be…

A pre-testing orientation was incorporated into the Work Incentives Program, a pre-vocational program for disadvantaged youth. Test-taking skills were taught in seven and one half hours of instruction and a variety of methods were used to provide a sequential experience with distributed learning, positive reinforcement, and immediate feedback of…

The Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) and Kerlinger's ES-VII are instruments which examine both the individual's general educational philosophy and his ideas of practice. A study was designed to investigate (1) the common variance in the Difference score of the 150-item MTAI and the D score of Kerlinger's 30-item ES-VII with respect to…

Published data on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank profiles of 113 occupational groups are analyzed by three clustering procedures: hierachical grouping of standard scores and of orthonormal factor scores, and NORMIX analysis assuming equal covariance matrices for each group. (Author/JKS)

Describes the interest and concern of the membership of the Personnel Testing Council of Southern California in what may be the most critical issue in personnel testing today--the implications of using or not using g-loaded tests. Describes the events that led to the scheduling of a major conference on the g factor. Also describes audience…

Examined whether less experienced judges could also produce accurate estimates of the validity of cognitive tests. Shows that the estimates of less experienced judges contain less information than those of experts, but also that average of estimates of several less experienced judges are as accurate as those obtained from small-sample empirical…

This article re-examines data from the Nonreading Aptitude Test Battery (NATB) and General Aptitude Battery (GATB) test manuals in light of some conventionally accepted psychometric considerations. It is recommended that caution be employed in relating NATB profiles to the Occupational Aptitude Patterns' norms. (Author)