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

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SELECTION OF EXAMINATIONS §; tions, or the choice of items. A test of “imagination” in- cluded in a battery of tests for salesmen gets readier accep- tance when labeled “foresight.” The directions may call attention to the analogy between job and test or they may set up a hypothetical situation in which the applicant is to place himself. The items may often be so worded or con- structed as to refer directly to the job without injury to the purpose of the test. To repeat, the investigator should make it his aim not only to construct his tests with some regard to their analogy with the vocational requirements, but should also motivate the applicant by so wording or arranging his test material or directions as to make their relevancy to the job apparent. SOURCES OF MATERIAL The more profitable sources of material are listed in this section. In addition, the investigator may run across sug- gestive material in newspapers and magazines, or by brows- ing in stores or factories. His originality will be shown by his success in adapting these materials to his needs. We shall deal here with some of the sources of completed tests, or of material from which tests, questionnaires, and rating scales may be devised. The vocational apparatus. The equipment or materials used by the worker on the job may often be adapted to test purposes. If the apparatus is costly or cumbersome it will be possible to test only one man at a time. Reproductions of small parts of the equipment may be used for test pur- poses, permitting the testing of groups. Sometimes pictures may be substituted for the actual apparatus in testing. Sources for illustrations are text-books or manuals of the trade, trade journals, trade catalogs, or photographs, dia- grams, and sketches specially prepared. Former studies of the vocation. It goes without saying that the investigator should be familiar with all the previous 3 1X

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