Chapter 5 Flashcards

Assessment Methods for Selection and Placement (36 cards)

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Psychological Test

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Consists of a standard set of items or tasks that a person completes under controlled conditions.

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Biographical Information Forms

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Ask about relevant prior experiences such as one’s level of education and work experience.

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Interview

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A meeting between the job applicant and someone at the employing organization who will have input into the hiring decision.

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Work Sample

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A test that asks a person to perform a simulated job.

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Assessment Center

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Series of exercises, including simulated job tasks, which measure how well a person can perform a job.

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Group Test

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Test that can be administered to several people at once, typically done with a course exam.

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Closed-Ended Test

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Test taker must choose one of several possible responses, as in a multiple-choice test.

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Open-Ended Test

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Test taker must generate a response, rather than choosing a correct response.

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Paper and Pencil Test

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Test is on a piece of paper or other printed (or electronic) medium, and the responses are made in written form, often with a pencil.

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Performance Test

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Involved manipulation of apparatuses, equipment, materials, or tools.

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Power Test

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Gives the test taker almost unlimited time to complete the test.

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Speed Test

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Has a strict time limit. Designed for almost no one to complete the items.

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Cognitive Ability Test

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An intelligence or IQ test of general cognitive ability.

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Psychomotor Ability Test

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Assess such things as ability to manipulate objects and use tools.

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Achievement Test

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Designed to assess a person’s present level of proficiency.

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Knowledge Test

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Assesses what the person knows.

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Skill Test

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Assesses what a person is able to do.

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Personality Trait

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The predisposition or tendency to behave in a particular way across different situations.

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Personality Tests

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Useful for assessing personality traits. Can also be designed to find a certain personality trait.

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Job Relevance

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What an assessment tool measures is linked to the KSAO requirements of the job.

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Emotional Intelligence (EI)

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People’s ability to control and recognize emotions in themselves and in others.

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Integrity Test

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Designed to predict whether or not an employee will engage in counterproductive or dishonest behavior on the job.

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Overt Integrity Test

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Assesses a person’s attitudes and prior behavior. Asks the person to indicate agreement or disagreement with statements concerning honesty and moral behavior.

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Personality Integrity Test

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Assesses personality characteristics that have been found to predict overall counterproductive behavior.

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Vocational Interest Test
Matches either the interests or the personality of the test taker to those of people in a variety of different occupations and occupational categories.
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Biographical Inventory
Asks much more detailed background questions than a typical application form.
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Empirical Biographical Inventory
Developed by administering a large number of potential items to a group of employees in a particular job.
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Rational Biographical Inventory
Developed by beginning with an analysis of KSAO requirements and then devising items that reflect those KSAOs.
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Structured Interview
Interviewer has a preplanned series of questions that are asked of every person who is interviewed.
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Assessee
Person being assessed.
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Assessors
Asked to evaluate the person's performance on each dimension of several relevant to the job in question.
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In-Basket Exercise
A simulation exercise that asks the assessee to pretend that it is the first day of a new job and he or she has found a series of items in his or her in-basket.
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Leaderless Group Exercise
Several assesses are given a problem to solve together.
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Problem-Solving Simulation
Assessee is given a problem and is asked to come up with a solution, perhaps by producing a report.
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Role-Play Exercise
Requires the assessee to pretend to be a particular person in a specific organizational role, such as a sale manager.
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Computer Adaptive Testing
A flexible computerized approach to item administration where items given to a test taker are chosen based on prior correct or incorrect responses.