Adverse Impact and Test Validation

Adverse Impact and Test Validation
Author: Dan Biddle
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780566087783

This book provides human resource practitioners, academicians, and employment attorneys with practical, 'hands on' steps to follow for analyzing employment tests for adverse impact and for conducting defensible validation studies using techniques that have been previously supported in court. This second edition contains two new chapters and updated software on the CD included with the book.

Validity Generalization

Validity Generalization
Author: Kevin R. Murphy
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2013-03-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135638349

This volume presents the first wide-ranging critical review of validity generalization (VG)--a method that has dominated the field since the publication of Schmidt and Hunter's (1977) paper "Development of a General Solution to the Problem of Validity Generalization." This paper and the work that followed had a profound impact on the science and practice of applied psychology. The research suggests that fundamental relationships among tests and criteria, and the constructs they represent are simpler and more regular than they appear. Looking at the history of the VG model and its impact on personnel psychology, top scholars and leading researchers of the field review the accomplishments of the model, as well as the continuing controversies. Several chapters significantly extend the maximum likelihood estimation with existing models for meta analysis and VG. Reviewing 25 years of progress in the field, this volume shows how the model can be extended and applied to new problems and domains. This book will be important to researchers and graduate students in the areas of industrial organizational psychology and statistics.

Alternative Validation Strategies

Alternative Validation Strategies
Author: S. Morton McPhail
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787988324

Alternative Validation Strategies is a groundbreaking compendium of the most current research and practical guidelines for time- and cost-saving alternatives to the traditional test validation strategies associated with selection processes. The “state of the science” strategies outlined in this valuable resource will help employers to evaluate the inferences drawn from their selection procedures while offering practices that meet stringent legal and regulatory requirements.

Individual Assessment

Individual Assessment
Author: Kristin O. Prien
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2003-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135643539

Indiv. Assessment for selection & develop. is very important to organizations and managers. This book will provide a structure and core set of principles for teaching others how to do it. It can serve as a reference or supplemental textbook.

Understanding and Investigating Response Processes in Validation Research

Understanding and Investigating Response Processes in Validation Research
Author: Bruno D. Zumbo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319561294

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity. It builds on the themes and findings of the volume Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences (Zumbo & Chan, 2014), with a focus on measurement validity evidence based on response processes. Approximately 1000 studies are published each year examining the validity of inferences made from tests and measures in the social, behavioural, and health sciences. The widely accepted Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (1999, 2014) present five sources of evidence for validity: content-related, response processes, internal structure, relationships with other variables, and consequences of testing. Many studies focus on internal structure and relationships with other variables sources of evidence, which have a long history in validation research, known methodologies, and numerous exemplars in the literature. Far less is understood by test users and researchers conducting validation work about how to think about and apply new and emerging sources of validity evidence. This groundbreaking volume is the first to present conceptual models of response processes, methodological issues that arise in gathering response processes evidence, as well as applications and exemplars for providing response processes evidence in validation work.