validity of selection procedures

Question 1

validity concerns the _ of judgements made from scores on selection measures

Answer 1

accuracy

Question 2

3 approaches to validity:

1. _ validity
2. _ validity
3. _ validity

Answer 2

content, criterion, construct

Question 3

a selection procedure has content validity when its _ representatively samples the _ of the job associated with _ performance

Answer 3

content, content, successful

Question 4

content validity relies on _ (2), not _

Answer 4

expert judgement, statistics

Question 5

_ validity may be confused with content validity, _ (2) deals with _ sampling of the _ domain of the job, while _ (2) deals with the _ of whether a measure is measuring what is intended

Answer 5

face, content validity, representative, content, face validity, appearance

Question 6

types of criterion validation strategies: _ validation and _ validation

Answer 6

concurrent, predictive

Question 7

concurrent validation is when information based on predictor and a criterion for a current group of employees is being _ at the _ (3)

Answer 7

collected, same time period

Question 8

_ validation involves the collection of data _ (2), _ is first collected, and _ is collected at a later time

Answer 8

predictive, over time, predictor, criterion

Question 9

for predictive validation, _ (2), not _ are the data source

Answer 9

job applicants, employees

Question 10

a big weakness of predictive validation is the _ (2) required to determine the validity of the measure being examined

Answer 10

time interval

Question 11

requirements for criterion validity:

1. _, not in a period of _
2. criterion free from _
3. large, _ sample

Answer 11

stable, change, contamination, representative

Question 12

differences between criterion validity and content validity:

1. content V is more focused on the selection procedure job _ domain, while criterion V is more focused on an _ (2)
2. criterion V is _ based on _ set of data, while content V is based on a _ base of data
3. criterion V is _, content V uses judgemental descriptors

Answer 12

content, external criterion, narrowly, specific, broader, quantitative

Question 13

_ validation helps us determine the degree to which test scores can be interpreted as reflecting an _ (3)

Answer 13

construct, underlying psychological construct

Question 14

importance of _ sample sizes:

1. _ on a small sample must be higher in value to be considered _ (2)
2. small sample sizes are _ reliable, and show greater _
3. lower chances of a predictor to be _

Answer 14

large, computation, statistically significant, less, variability, valid

Question 15

utility analysis is to translate the results of a _ study into terms that are important to and _ by _

Answer 15

validation, understandable, managers

Question 16

criticisms of validity _ studies:

1. _ (2) used to generalize results usually not based on _ data, but on _ values
2. _ (2) may not be inappropriate, may _ the amount of variance

Answer 16

generalization, corrective formula, sufficient, hypothetical, correction formula, overestimate

Question 17

_ validity is the _ of test battery validity from _ validities of the tests for basic work components

Answer 17

synthetic, inference, predetermined

Question 18

generally, _ (2) validity estimates _ to validity coefficients obtained in actual validation studies

Answer 18

job component, similar

Question 19

validation options for small sample sizes:

1. _ validity
2. validity _
3. _ (3), the logical process of _ test validity

Answer 19

content, generalization, job component validity, inferring

Question 20

_ (2) tables provide an estimate of the _ (2) of a test

Answer 20

Taylor Russell, incremental validity