Criterion Development (Chap 3) Flashcards
1
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criteria (def)
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- evaluation standards
- used as reference points in making judgments
- criteria most important for defining “goodness” of employees, programs, and units in the organization as well as the organization itself.
2
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conceptual criterion
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- what you WANT to measure
- a theoretical construct
- an abstract idea tat can never actually be measured
- an ideal set of factors that constitute a successful person (or object) as conceived in the psychologists mind
3
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actual criteria
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- what you ACTUALLY measure
- measures of the conceptual criteria that we would prefer to (but cannot) asses
- operational or actual standards that researchers measure or asses
- often contrasted with conceptual criteria
4
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criterion issues
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- multiple ways to define effective
- different people, different opinions
- how we define something will effect how we observe
- prediction is only as good as criterion
5
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three concepts to describe the relationship between conceptual and actual criteria
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- deficiency
- relevance
- contamination
6
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criterion deficiency
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- how lacking the actual criteria are in representing the conceptual ones
- the degree to which the actual criteria fail to overlap the conceptual criteria
- there is always some degree of deficiency in the actual criteria
- criterion deficiency = CONCEPTUAL criterion
7
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criterion relevance
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- the degree to which the actual criterion and the conceptual criterion coincide
- the greater the match between the conceptual and the actual criteria, the greater the relevance
- cannot know the exact amount of relevance because conceptual criteria cannot be measured
8
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criterion contamination
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- part of the actual criteria that is unrelated to the conceptual criteria
- the extent to which the actual criteria measure something other than the conceptual criteria
- two parts: bias and error
- criterion contamination = ACTUAL criterion
9
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bias (criterion contamination)
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- the extent to which the actual criteria systematically or consistently measures something other than the conceptual criteria
10
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error (criterion contamination)
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- the extent to which the actual criteria are not related to anything at all
11
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two approaches for developing criterion
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- deductive approach
2. inductive aprroach
12
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deductive approach (def)
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job analysis
13
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inductive approach (def)
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differences between good and poor performers
14
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proximal criteria
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short term criteria
15
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distal criteria
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long term criteria
