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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Assessment centers"”.
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Construct Confusion and Assessment Centers: A Person-Situation Interactionist Perspective
Despite the evidence that assessment centers (ACs) are effective predictors of career advancement and job performance, considerable confusion remains regarding why this is the case. Traditional AC theory and practice suggest it is because the skill dimensions typically evaluated in ACs (e.g. such …
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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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The Search for Construct Validity of Assessment Centers: Does the Ease of Evaluation of Dimensions Matter?
… on the construct validity of a selection assessment center conducted in 1993. High ease of evaluation dimensions, operationalized as the greatest proportion of highly diagnostic behaviors, were expected to demonstrate greater construct and criterion related validity. Multitrait-multimethod …
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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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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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The Adaptation of a Situational Judgement Test to Measure Leadership Knowledge in the Workplace
… and conducting high fidelity simulations such as assessment centers, coupled with the recent economic downturn affecting many organizations. The current study sought to validate an SJT as a low cost, alternate form of assessing leadership within an organizational context. A content validation …
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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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Data mining OIPEA database for waste and productivity enhancements in manufacturing units
… firms under the auspices of the Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) that are spread throughout the U.S. The data collected from the hundreds of energy audits that are conducted each year is collected in a database maintained by the Office of Industrial Productivity and Energy Assessment …
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The Validation of a Situational Judgment Test to Measure Leadership Behavior
Assessment centers, although useful for assessing behaviors and competencies associated with a targeted construct, can be low in economic utility. The current study sought to validate a situational judgment test (SJT) that was developed as an alternate form of assessment for a leadership …
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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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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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Gender and Ethnicity-Based Differential Item Functioning on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
… A sample of 10,775 managers who took the MBTI at assessment centers provided the data for the present experiment. The Mantel-Haenszel procedure and an IRT-based area technique were the methods of DIF-detection. Results showed several biased items on all scales for all comparisons. Ethnicitybased …
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FRENCH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: TEACHER CERTIFICATION IN CANADA (IMMERSION, FSL, CORE FRENCH).
… of Ministers of Canada: (1) that national assessment centers be established to determine competencies of FSL teacher candidates; (2) that three specific bases of information be established: (a) a national pool of competency-based and criterion referenced performance items, (b) a …
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The Effects of Engagement in an Internship on Readiness for School Leadership
… Association of Secondary School Principals’ Assessment Centers between 2001 and 2006. Assessment center scores in 10 areas of performance were used as a measure of the readiness for school leadership for of the participants. Summated Likert scales were used to measure engagement and two of …
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The Influence of Direct Versus Indirect Observation, Candidate Report Format, and Assessor Training on the Accuracy of Assessor Ratings
<p>Within the assessment center method, assessors' preliminary evaluations of candidates' performance are typically based on information obtained through direct observation of the candidate's performance in the situational exercise, or on another assessor's report of that performance. This …
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Psychometrics of OSCE Standardized Patient Measurements
This study examined the reliability and validity of scores taken from a series of four task simulations used to evaluate medical students. The four role-play exercises represented two different cases or scripts, yielding two pairs of exercises that are considered alternate forms. The design allowed …
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The Influence of Rater Training, Scale Format, and Rating Justification on the Quality of Performance Ratings by Three Rater Sources
… dimensions if a multiple-method approach to the assessment of job performance is desired</p>
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Analysis of Energy Recommendations in the U.S. Wood Products Industry
As energy prices and demand are projected to increase globally and markets become more competitive nationally and internationally; the wood products industry must find ways to remain relevant. By: 1) analyzing energy-saving recommendations contained in the IAC database; 2) comparing those …
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