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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Assessment center"”.
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A Construct Validity Analysis of a Leadership Assessment Center
… to assess the construct validity of a leadership assessment center. Participants were evaluated in a leadership assessment center and completed a 360 degree feedback tool designed to measure leadership. Convergent and discriminant validity coefficients were calculated between assessment center …
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Assessment Center Structure and Construct Validity: A New Hope
Assessment Centers (ACs) are a fantastic method to measure behavioral indicators of job performance in multiple diverse scenarios. Based upon a thorough job analysis, ACs have traditionally demonstrated very strong content and criterion-related validity. However, researchers have been puzzled for …
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Interagency Modeling Atmospheric Assessment Center local jurisdiction: IMAAC operations framework
The Interagency Modeling Atmospheric Assessment Center (IMAAC) is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) interagency working group responsible to create atmospheric air plume dispersion model predictions for designated emergencies. When 'activated' IMAAC is comprised of representatives from eight …
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Inconsistency in Assessment Center Performance: Measurement Error or Something More
The first assessment centers often considered inconsistency as a characteristic that might illuminate a candidate's personality and have important implications for future job performance (Bray & Grant, 1966; Fiske, Hanfmann, MacKinnon, Miller, & Murray, 1948), but subsequent assessment center …
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An Evaulation of the Criterion Measures in a Leadership Assessment Center
… for any performance appraisal system, including assessment centers, is critical to the validity and utility of the system. The current research consisted of two studies evaluating the criterion measures of a leadership assessment center at a southeastern university. The first study examined the …
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Gamma, beta, and alpha change in individuals following a developmental assessment center
Despite widespread application of the assessment center method to diagnosis and development, little is known about how participants' understanding of the dimensions tapped by the process is affected following their participation. Using the method outlined by Terborg, Maxwell, and Howard (1980) to …
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The effect of the assessment center process on the self-esteem of participants
Effects of the Assessment tenter process on participants’ self-esteem were examined and related to past research and traditional self-esteem theories. Thirty-nine sales representatives were assessed for career-development potential at a large midwestern pharmaceutical company. It was proposed, in …
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Comparison of the Efficacy of General and Specific Performance Dimensions in an Operational Assessment Center
… reliability of pre- and post-consensus assessment ratings would be greater for the general performance dimensions than for the specific dimensions. The results confirmed the hypothesis for the pre-consensus ratings, and the results for the post-consensus ratings were in the hypothesized …
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The Effects of Training Strategies on Assessor Behavior and the Accuracy of Assessment Center Consensus Ratings
… about assessee performance across three assessment center exercises and form dimension and overall ratings for four experimental assessees. The rating accuracy results indicated that (a) no differences in rating accuracy existed between part and whole training, (b) team training led to …
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A meta-analytic validity study of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Assessment Center process
… studies pertaining to the validity of the NASSP Assessment Center process. Thirtyfour studies were identified as potential sources of information. The analysis focused primarily on criterion-related validity and the potential of gender, position type and racial bias in the assessment process. …
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Factors related to the implementation of developmental activities following participation in a diagnostic assessment center for middle managers
The assessment center is a contemporary approach to identifying managerial potential for purposes of selection, placement, promotion, or development. This research determined the extent to which participants actually implemented developmental activities following assessment. The organization …
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Finding the ghost with the machine: Breaking through the assessment center validity ceiling by exploring decisional processes using new sources of behavioral data within virtual assessments
<p>Decades of assessment center (AC) research has resulted in an inevitable “validity ceiling” whereby increasing the validity of the AC method is becoming increasingly difficult. To overcome this challenge, new avenues for collecting and evaluating AC participant behaviors must be explored, with a …
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Towards Understanding Why Assessment Centers Work: An Evaluation of the Subtle Criterion Contamination Hypothesis
<p>The success of the assessment center method in predicting job performance has been one of the most researched efforts in personnel psychology (Thornton, 1992). However, there is little reported evidence showing that assessment center procedures produce scores that serve as valid representations …
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A Situational Assessment of Student Leadership: An Evaluation of Alternate Forms Reliability and Convergent Validity
The Situational Assessment of Leadership: Student Assessment (SALSA©) was developed in the spring of 2009 to be used as a measure of student leadership. Study 1 assessed alternate forms reliability of the SALSA using scores from 178 students. The overall scores on SALSA Form A and SALSA Form B …
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