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Peer reviewedAnderson, Sue M.; Muchinsky, Paul M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
Two important parameters of the general utility function--the standard deviation of job performance and predictor performance--were examined in terms of their sensitivity to departures from underlying mathematical assumptions. Integral calculus was used to assess the effects of statistical violations of the assumptions underlying these parameters.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Estimation (Mathematics), Job Performance, Mathematical Models
Peer reviewedGow, Lyn; Ward, James – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Using the Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Porteus Maze Tests with characteristic modifications, the feasibility of using measures of cognitive tempo were examined. The measures' contributions in predicting the work performance of institutionalized moderately-severely retarded subjects were no greater than conventional individual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Conceptual Tempo, Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons
Download full textCrafts, Jennifer – 1991
Biographical inventory is a selection device used as an alternative or supplement to cognitive testing because this measurement method predicts aspects of job performance that are not predicted by cognitive measures. Some of the issues and concerns about using biographical inventories are discussed. The use of biographical inventories (biodata) is…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Cognitive Tests, Data Collection, Individual Characteristics
Bishop, John – 1988
Employment tests predict job performance because they measure or are correlated with a large set of malleable developed abilities, which are causally related to productivity. Our economy currently under-rewards the achievements that are measured by these tests. Consequently, economic incentives to study hard in high school are minimal, and this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Employment Qualifications, Incentives
Peer reviewedSociety, 1990
Supports and defends the work of the National Research Council's Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB). Argues that, through validity generalization, the distinction between referral and hiring, and the establishment of a "performance-fair" system of score adjustments, the GATB can be used to effect equitable employment…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Ethnic Discrimination
Peterson, Norman G., Ed. – 1987
As part of the United States Army's Project A, research has been conducted to develop and field test a battery of experimental tests to complement the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in predicting soldiers' job performance. Project A is the United States Army's large-scale manpower effort to improve selection, classification, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Computer Assisted Testing
