Employee Testing

6 and Selection

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 Learning Objectives
1. Explain what is meant by reliability
and validity.
2. Explain how you would go about
validating a test.
3. Cite and illustrate our testing
guidelines.
4. Give examples of some of the ethical
and legal considerations in testing.
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 Learning Objectives
5. List eight tests you could use for
employee selection, and how you
would use them.
6. Give two examples of work
sample/simulation tests.
7. Give examples of some of the ethical
and legal considerations in testing.

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 Why Careful Selection is
Important
• Performance
• Cost
• Legal obligations
• Person and job/organization fit

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 Explaining what is meant
by reliability and validity

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 Basic Testing Concepts
• Reliability
• Validity
o Criterion validity
o Content validity
o Construct validity

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 Review
• Reliability =
consistency
• Validity =
measuring what
you intend to
measure

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 How to go about validating
a test

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 Evidence-Based HR: How
to Validate a Test
• Analyze
• Choose
• Administer
• Relate
• Cross-validate

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 Review

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 Cite and illustrate our
testing guidelines

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 Evidence-Based HR: Test
Validation Issues
• Who scores the test?
• Bias
• Utility analysis
• Validity generalization

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 Review

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 Ethical and legal
considerations in testing

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 Evidence-Based HR: Test
Validation Other Issues

• Individual rights and test security

• Privacy issues
• Using tests at work
• Computerized and online testing

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 Review
• Rights and security
• Privacy
• Tests at work
• Computerized,
online testing

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 Tests for employee
selection, and how you
would use them

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 Types of Tests
• Cognitive abilities
o Intelligence tests
o Specific cognitive abilities
• Motor & physical abilities
• Measuring personality
• Interest inventories
• Achievement tests

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 What do personality tests
measure?

• The “Big Five”

• Predicting
performance
• Caveats

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 Review
• Cognitive • Interests
abilities • Achievement
o IQ • “Big 5”
o Specific mental • Predicting
abilities • Caveats
• Motor skills o Interpretation
• Personality o Legal issues
o Disputing value
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 Examples of work
sample/simulation tests

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 Work samples and
simulations

• Basic procedure
• Situational judgment tests
• Management assessment centers
• Situational testing

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 Work samples and
simulations
• Computerized
multimedia assessment
• Miniature job training
and evaluation
• Realistic job previews
• Testing techniques for
managers
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 Review
• Situational • Miniature job
judgment training
• Assessment • Realistic job
centers previews
• Situational • Managers and
testing testing
• Computers

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 Examples of some of the
ethical and legal
considerations in testing

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 Background Investigations
• Why perform checks?
• Effectiveness
• Legal dangers
o Defamation
o Privacy
• How to check

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 Background Investigations

• Applicants’ social postings

• Pre-employment information services
• The polygraph and honesty testing
• Graphology

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 Background Investigations
• “Human lie detectors”
• Physical exams
• Substance abuse
• Complying with immigration law
• Improving productivity through HRIS

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 Review
• Why perform checks?
• Effectiveness
• Legal dangers
• How to check
• Social postings
• Information services

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 Review
• Honesty testing
• Graphology
• “Human lie detectors”
• Physicals/drugs
• Immigration
• HRIS

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