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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Personality tests"”.
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Individual and situational influences on distortion of personality tests
… and situational influences on distortion of personality tests were investigated. It was expected that individuals would use different distortion strategies in different situations and that individual differences would influence distortion. Two laboratory studies were conducted. The first …
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Using Appropriateness Measurement to Detect Realistic Faking of Personality Tests
Research has shown that personality tests are susceptible to faking and that test takers do indeed take advantage of this vulnerability. This faking creates a problem when organizations use personality tests as screening tools for candidates for employment. Among the methods available to detect …
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Using Differential Item Functioning (Dif) Procedures for Investigating the Cross -Cultural Equivalence of Personality Tests
The results showed that the extraversion scale of the 16PF had the same factor structure across the two groups only in that it had the same number of factors and the same items on each factor. According to the DIF results, the choice of matching variables based on a combination of internal and …
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An Investigation of the Inter-Relationships Among Certain Personality Tests and Ratings and Their Relationship to Academic Success in a Teacher’s College
… exists between self ratings attained from a personality inventory and dormitory supervisor ratings on a standard scale, (2) what relationship exists between scores on a personality inventory and college grade point average, and (3) what relationship exists between dormitory supervisor ratings …
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Disentangling substantive responses from faking: Statistical and practical performance of the Bayesian Retrieve-Edit-Select model
Faking has been a major concern for the use of personality tests in high-stakes conditions because it poses a threat to the validity of selection decisions. Despite decades of efforts, researchers have neither reached a consensual understanding of the nature of faking, nor come up with effective …
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The establishment of implicit perspectives of personality in Tshivenda-speaking South Africans
Personality tests are widely used in South Africa. The application of personality assessment techniques for clinical and personnel decisions has been a major activity for psychologists. All main personality models have ken developed in a Western context: the question therefore arises whether these …
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Personality Test Validation Research: Present-employee and job applicant samples
In an effort to demonstrate the usefulness of personality tests as predictors of job performance, it is common practice to draw a validation sample consisting of individuals who are currently employed on the job in question. It has long been assumed that the results of such a study are …
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Moderation of Personality Test Validity
Personality testing can be an adequate instrument for prediction of future job performance. However, the predictive ability of these tests has been only moderate at best. This researcher attempted to determine if feedback would help improve the predictive ability of personality tests. The results …
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An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Scales from the International Personality Item Pool and the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised
Personality tests are widely used in the field of Industrial/Organizational Psychology; however, few studies have focused on their psychometric properties using Item Response Theory. This paper uses IRT to examine the test information functions (TIFs) of two personality measures: the NEO-PI-R and …
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Faking in personality assessments: an investigation of a method factor measure of faking
… faking to control for the effects of faking when personality tests are used to predict performance criteria. Traditional measures of faking, such as social desirability scales, have not been found to adequately control for faking. This study assessed the adequacy of the newly developed measure. …
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The use of standardized test results in elementary schools of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod in the United States, 1950-1951
… answer is: How are achievement, intelligence and personality tests results used in the elementary schools of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod?</p><p>This study will investigate only the use of standardized tests. As each school and each teacher would use different types of teacher-made tests …
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The Career Pattern of Ndea Elementary School Counselors
… on their scholastic aptitude, interest and personality tests?
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Measurement equivalence of the Comprehensive Personality Scales across cultures: an item response theory approach
… of differential item functioning (DIF) in two personality tests of the Comprehensive Personality Scale (Wang, 2013). A dominance IRT model (SGRM) and an ideal point model (the GGUM) were applied within the NHST paradigm, due to the debate over which is the more appropriate model for personality …
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Postsecondary Education Preparation/Career Exploration: Designing a Pilot Educational Counseling Program for Rural Counties
… including Myers-Briggs and Keirsey personality tests, Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles assessments, and Holland Hexagon (RIASEC) vocational preference inventories, have been administered to high school students as a component of postsecondary education and career …
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Student Temperament Assessment And Its Relationship With The Selection Of Accounting As A Major
Personality tests have long been utilized to assist in the assessment of individuals. This study analyzes David Keirsey's temperament types and college students intending to major in accounting. The recruiting and retaining of students with qualities and characteristics desired by the accounting …
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An Empirical investigation into management and control of software prototyping.
… minutes and standards were also analysed, and personality tests conducted. The main lessons learnt include the 'process diversity', the inadequate methods and standards, and lack of quality control, particularly in regard to future maintainability and extensibility. Recommendations are given …
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