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:: VI. Selection of examinations

Collection:: Economics Books

V1 6 SELECTION OF EXAMINATIONS Principles governing the selection and construction of tests: Objectivity; reliability ; simplicity; analogy of test and ability to be measured; resem- blance to vocational tasks. Sources of material: The vocational apparatus; former studies of the vocation; general test publications; miscellaneous sources of information. THE investigator has at this point chosen a criterion of success in the profession, occupation, or job being studied, has selected those who are to serve as subjects for his in- vestigation, and has drawn up a tentative list of abilities considered essential to success in the occupation. He is now faced with the task of choosing or constructing suitable examinations for the abilities deemed essential to success. Later he must test the validity of these examinations. Mea- sures obtained with them will have to be compared with the status of the workers in the criterion of actual vocational accomplishment, in order to determine which examinations if any have sufficient validity in predicting success in this vocation to warrant their use in selection. Serviceable types of measuring devices from among which a choice will be made are psychological tests, rating scales, and certain forms of questionnaires, such as application blanks and interest analyses. Subsequent chapters will treat in detail of the construction and use of each of these types of examination. Here attention is focused on basic gen- eral principles governing the selection and construction of measuring instruments. While these principles apply par- ticularly to psychological tests, several of them are equally pertinent to other kinds of device for gaging abilities essen- tial to vocational success.

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