The Adaptation of a Situational Judgement Test to Measure Leadership Knowledge in the Workplace

<p>In recent times, situational judgment tests (SJTs) have emerged as an instrument of choice in organizations. This emergence is partly due to the high costs associated with developing 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 study was carried out by retranslating items into eight dimensions and calibrating item responses. This study resulted in a content valid measure of leadership knowledge. Future studies should focus on further evaluating the psychometric properties of this new leadership assessment. Alternate forms reliability, convergent validity, and divergent validity studies, in particular, should be conducted to evaluate the new test.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Psychology

Year

2014

Author dc:creator

• Osam, Ebo K. A

Contributors dc:contributor

• Elizabeth Shoenfelt (Director), Reagan Brown, Cindy Ehresman

• Content validity
• assessment centers
• retranslation
• calibration
• critical incidents
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1360

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wku.edu:theses-2363