Procedures in employment psychology

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Identifikator:: 173623112X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-112923

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Author:: Bingham, Walter Van Dyke http://d-nb.info/gnd/123042593; Freyd, Max

Title:: Procedures in employment psychology

Place of publication:: Chicago & New York

Publisher:: Shaw

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XI, 269 S

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Psychological tests

Collection:: Economics Books

rr PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS What is meant by a psychological test. Classification of tests according to purpose, ability measured, apparatus or material used, technique, restrictions on response. Verbal tests. A PSYCHOLOGICAL test is a means of gaging an ability by measuring performance in a standard task (or tasks of graded difficulty), performed under standard conditions. The conditions which should be definitely specified and con- trolled include the incentive for the person to do his best, as well as more obvious conditions such as standard equip- ment and materials, and uniform preliminary instruction and fore-exercise. A good test yields an accurate objective measure of typical behavior in a way to reveal the extent to which the person differs from other individuals with respect to the ability tested. An unfortunate tendency has appeared in some quarters to use the term “tests” broadly to cover all kinds of psycho- logical measuring devices, including rating scales and ques- tionnaires. But a rating scale is a very different sort of instrument, to meet a different need. It yields a record of the rater’s subjective estimate of the person’s ability or trait, whereas a test yields an objective measure of actual performance. One is a systematized record of opinion; the other a measurement of fact. A questionnaire calls for factual data about either per- formance or opinion. It does not undertake, however, to get a precise measure under standardized conditions of what the person can do now, but rather to find out what he has done, what his personal history has been, what his interests, tastes and ambitions are, and the like. av 87

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