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

EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY land Aggressiveness Test (119) requiring the sub- ject to do problems in mental arithmetic while staring the examiner in the eye. Technique. A convenient basis for classifying tests is the number of persons who may be tested at one time. This classification is commonly limited to two categories: 1. Individual tests 2. Group tests It is pertinent here to point out the relative advantages of these two types of test. A test which can be given to a group of persons at once has the advantage that it reduces the cost, and the time of the examiner. With the right motivation it is not difficult to preserve order, and cheating may be controlled by the exercise of care. A suitable room equipped for the purpose is desirable. The group test has some disadvantages. It limits the variety of reactions which may be studied. If it requires duplicating expensive apparatus the cost may outweigh the saving in time. The individual test, the test given to one person at a time, demands more of the examiner, but permits the use of more elaborate apparatus and the measurement of a greater variety of reactions. In theory some small weight may attach to the distinc- tion between the two types of tests in the way they repro- duce the job conditions; that is, if the job requires the men to work together in groups, then in theory group tests may be the kind to use, and if they work singly, individual tests may be preferable. Such considerations would, however, have weight only if the job analysis had shown that an im- portant social aspect of the job were closely reproduced by the test situation. The individual test not only allows a wider latitude in testing, but is often more practical in application, since can- didates must usually be examined singly. 04

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