Fairness in Employment Testing

Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery

Auteur: Wigdor, Alexandra K.; Hartigan, John A.
Éditeur: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309074735
eISBN Pdf: 9780309555432
Lieu de publication: United States
Année de publication électronique: 1989
Mois : Janvier
Pages: 369
Langue: Anglais

Légende

Declining American competitiveness in world economic markets has renewed interest in employment testing as a way of putting the right workers in the right jobs. A new study of the U.S. Department of Labor's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Referral System sheds light on key questions for America's employers: How well does the GATB predict job success? Are there scientific justifications for adjusting minority test scores? Will increased use of the GATB result in substantial increases in productivity?

Fairness in Employment Testing evaluates both the validity generalization techniques used to justify the use of the GATB across the spectrum of U.S. jobs and the policy of adjusting test scores to promote equal opportunity.

Cover
Front Matter
Summary
1 The Policy Context
2 Issues in Equity and Law
3 The Public Employment Service
4 The GATB: Its Character and Psychometric Properties
5 Problematic Features of the GATB: Test Administration, Speedness, and Coachability
6 The Theory of Validity Generalization
7 Validity Generalization Applied to the GATB
8 GATB Validities
9 Differential Validity and Differential Prediction
10 The VG-GATB Program: Concept, Promotion, and Implementation
11 In Whose Interest: Potential Effects of the VG-GATB Referral System
12 Evaluation of Economic Claims
13 Recommendations for Referral and Score Reporting
14 Central Recommendations
References
Appendix A: A Synthesis of Research on Some Psychometric Properties of the GATB
Appendix B: Tables Summarizing GATB Reliabilities
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches, Committee Members and Staff
Index