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 of difficulty of recording and scoring and the necessary con- stant supervision by the examiner. Where written responses are required, the amount of writing should be reduced to a minimum not only because of the saving in time, but also because of sources of error through variations in speed of writing, illegibility of hand- writing, and difficulty of scoring. Catch questions should be avoided. There are conditions under which catch questions are necessary, but they rarely arise in industry. In wartime it was not uncommon to find conscripts who simulated color-blindness in an effort to avoid military service. A clever test developed in Germany meets this situation (215). It consists of a number of charts each composed of small colored dots, averaging about a quarter of an inch in diam- eter, printed close together. To the person with normal color vision, numerals formed of dots of a single color stand out in each chart. The color-blind person cannot distin- guish these numerals because their gray value is the same as that of the other dots. In several of the charts, however, the numerals have a distinct gray value and can be read even by color-blind persons. The malingerer who is un- aware of this fact is detected when he claims that he cannot see any numerals on these charts. Questions should not follow in such a sequence that one suggests the answer to another. To facilitate scoring, items should be printed so that all answers appear in a column near the edge of the sheet. Verbal tests may require either a spoken or written reply. Thurstone has suggested a classification of verbal test items according to the degree of constraint they impose on the response. A. Free response B. Constrained response 1. Imposed by wording of question ob

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