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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"employment tests"”.
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Predicting Score Change: An Empirical Investigation of Cheating on Unproctored Employment Tests
… testing (UIT) is used widely to administer employment tests (Fallaw, Solomonson, & McClelland, 2009), although cognitively loaded tests delivered by UIT are suspected to offer test takers greater opportunities to cheat and increase the risk of test taker cheating (Chapman & Webster, 2003; …
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Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs
In continuously administered employment tests, test security may be compromised by examinees revealing test items to future test candidates. Unlike academic testing, employee selection tests generally have longer test windows and are less likely to implement new test items or have multiple parallel …
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A survey of word processing centers in the urban corridor of Virginia
… the typing and nontyping tasks performed and the employment tests administered in the word processing centers. Participants in the study were 19 organizations with word processing centers. Nineteen supervisors, 17 correspondence secretaries, and 2 administrative secretaries were interviewed. To …
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The Content Validation of an Employment Selection Process for Vehicle Mechanics
The current study is a significant portion of a content validation study conducted to evaluate new selection tools developed by an organization. In it I assessed the content validity of a structured interview through the following steps: conducting a literature review to establish best practices, …
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Population Cross-Validity Estimation and Adjustment for Direct Range Restriction: A Monte Carlo Investigation of Procedural Sequences to Achieve Optimal Cross-Validity
The current study employs Monte Carlo analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of various statistical procedures for determining specific values of interest within a population of 1,000,000 cases. Specifically, the proper procedures for addressing the opposing effects of direct range restriction and …
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Evaluation of the Situational Judgment Test
This research attempts to confirm the reliability and construct validity of a personnel selection instrument called a Situational Judgment Test (SJT) through reliability analysis and factor analysis. The existing literature on SJTs is reviewed, including the advantages of using SJTs in personnel …
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Proctored versus unproctored online testing using a personality measure: Are there any differences?
Impetus in recruiting and testing candidates via the Internet results from the popularity of the World Wide Web. There has been a transition from paper-pencil to online testing because of large number of benefits afforded by online testing. Though the benefits of online testing are many, there may …
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A Content Validity Study of the Water Training Institute Curriculum
Content validity methods, such as matching matrices, have been used to assist in the design and evaluation of training programs. In the present study, the Water Training Institute (WTI) curriculum was evaluated using a content validation approach. The purpose of the study was to identify topics …
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The Use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-II (MMPI-2) in Pre-employment Evaluations
… male applicants. A total of N=1,264 archival pre employment psychological records of applicants applying to a law enforcement peace officer position were reviewed. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), profile analysis statistical technique was used to assess profile differences by …