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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"cognitive ability test"”.
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Predicting long term job performance using a cognitive ability test.
This study focuses on the relationship of one cognitive ability test on long-term job performance as measured by personnel data. Archival data from over 3,000 employees at an international technology company were used to assess how aptitude test scores relate to both objective and subjective job …
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Analysis of the Reliability of the Cognitive Ability Test as a Predictor of Intellectual Giftedness
The problem: This study examined the reliability of the Cognitive Ability Test by Thorndike and Wagen as a tool for identification of gifted students, Procedure. Statistical analysis using a chi-square and a t-test were used to examine the reliability/ repeatability of this test. The first grade …
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Cognitive Ability Testing and Selection: A Review of Court Decisions Since 1991
Cognitive ability testing is utilized by many organizations in the selection process. Historically, cognitive ability testing has resulted in group differences in scores, particularly between Caucasians and African-Americans. Such group differences can result in adverse impact. This impact can lead …
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The Effects of Item Grouping on Test Reliability
Optimal ordering of items on a multidimensional test has been the focus of several studies. In all but one study, previous research centered on measures of personality or opinion. The current study examines item grouping effects for a cognitive ability test. Two forms of a cognitive ability test …
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Exploring the Dimensionality of Situational Judgment: Task and Contextual Knowledge
… knowledge, and in any given situational judgment test (SJT), there may be items that better tap contextual knowledge while other items may better tap task knowledge. 233 undergraduate students completed questionnaires containing a situational judgment test, personality questionnaire, and cognitive …
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Explaining the black-white gap in cognitive test scores: toward a theoretical model of adverse impact
… a key parameter is the Black-White difference in cognitive ability test scores. To advance theoretical understanding of why there exist Black-White cognitive test score gaps, and of how these gaps develop over time, the current paper proposes an inductive explanatory model derived from past …
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An examination of the structure and predictability of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator preferences using a job component validity strategy based on the Common-Metric Questionnaire
… form, is the linking of predictor items or tests directly to a job's elements. Three main operational definitions exist for synthetic validity, but only one, job component validity (JCV), actually specifies minimum scores for a given job. In an era of minimum cutoff scores, having an …
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The Multicheck’s suitability in hiring processes for apprentices in Swiss insurance companies
Using cognitive ability tests to screen candidates in hiring processes is a widely used practice to increase the quality of hiring decisions and find the best fitting employees for a particular job. The practice also receives support from research in human resource management, as long as the tests …
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Development of matrices abstract reasoning items to assess fluid intelligence
Matrices reasoning tests, which contain missing pieces in matrices that participants attempt to figure out, are one of the most popular types of tests to measure general intelligence. This thesis introduces several methods to develop matrices items, and presents them in different test forms to …