Module 3

Question 1

Steps of a Creating a Pre-Employment Standard Test (4)

Answer 1

1) Job Analysis
2) Physical Demands Analysis
3) Pre-Employment Testing
4) Cut score

Question 2

Define Job Analysis

Answer 2

Collection & analysis of any type of job-related info by an method for any purpose (observation, interviews, job descriptions, etc.

Question 3

Define Manual Materials Handling

Answer 3

Physically demanding tasks (lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, lowering loads).

Question 4

Dynamometers

Answer 4

Device for measuring force, torque, or power.

Question 5

Load Carriage

Answer 5

Performing a task w/ any additional load placed on the body.

Question 6

Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) Index

Answer 6

Represents the combined effect of air temperature, humidity (ability for evaporative cooling), wind (ability for evaporative cooling), thermal radiation (eg. sunlight (new heat being added))

Question 7

Reliability

Answer 7

The reproducibility of the test across repeated tests & raters

Question 8

Test-Retest Reliability

Answer 8

Have same participants perform the test more than once under same conditions

Question 9

Inter-Rater Reliability

Answer 9

Have different testers administer the test & be able to obtain the same results

Question 10

Validity

Answer 10

How accurately a method measures what is is intended to measure

Question 11

Sensitivity

Answer 11

Ability of test to identify true negatives

Question 12

Specificity

Answer 12

Ability of test to identify true positives

Question 13

Discrimination

Answer 13

Use of any selection procedure that has an adverse impact on the hiring or promotion of a defined minority group

Question 14

Adverse Impact

Answer 14

Four-fifths rule. A selection rate of a minority group less than 80% of the rate for the group w/ the highest rate

Question 15

Occupational (Work) Physiology

Answer 15

The basic science of ergonomics. It deals w/ the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, & adaptive mechanisms that allow the human body to adjust to different workloads & stresses & identifies the sources of inefficiency, overuse, & physical stress on the body related to work.

Question 16

Job Analysis

Answer 16

A systematic evaluation of a task w/ the purpose of generating info which will ensure that human performance requirements do not exceed human capabilities.

Question 17

Job Demands Analysis (JDA)

Answer 17

Systemic evaluation of job performance requirements (physical, mobility, sensory, cognitive, perceptual processing, etc.)

Question 18

Physical (physiological) Demands Analysis (PDA)

Answer 18

Systematic procedure to quantify the physical & environmental demand components of all essential & non-essential requirements of a job.

Question 19

Critical Tasks

Answer 19

Tasks in a job that are most important, most physically demanding, & frequently occurring.