Interviews
The most popular type of assessment organizations use to hire new employees.
What is the Traditional Interview?
Large scale simulations of the job that require candidates to solve typical job problems.
What are Assessment Centers?
The type of interview that has better reliability and validity than the traditional interview.
What is the Structured Interview
or
What is the Structred Behavioral Interview
Formal evaluations of the effectiveness of employees' job related behaviors.
What are Performance Appraisals?
Employee evaluation tools that are most likely to use anchors
What are graphic rating scales?
A more valid interview technique for hiring new employees than the traditional interview.
What is the structured behavioral interview?
Asking an applicant for a tutoring job to tutor a student while being observed by the interviewer.
What is a work sample?
Pre-employment testing costs too much.
A myth about using reliable and valid testing in organizations.
or
What is a myth?
Result when raters give all employees worse ratings than they deserve
What is a Severity Error?
Respondents describe and give detailed information about a situation and behaviors they used to respond to the situation in the past.
What is the Structured Behavioral Interview?
A meta-analysis showed this trait to be a valid predictor of all jobs for all occupational categories studied.
What is conscientiousness?
Mistakenly identifying innocent test takers as guilty
What is a false positive?
A performance appraisal that asks respondents to rate how frequently various behaviors occur.
What is a Behavioral Checklist.=?
Is constructed in order to establish validity for the questions used for a Structured Interview.
The two categories that assessments for integrity fall into.
What are physiological measures and paper and pencil tests.
A statistical technique used to combine the results of multiple studies into a single result.
What is a meta-analysis?
A rater error that occurs when raters let their judgement one one dimension influence judgements on other dimensions.
What is the halo effect?
A flight simulator is an example of this type of test.
What is a high fidelity test?
In structured inteviews, test developers use this to establish evidence of validity.
What is a job analysis?
The idea that a company must identify and reward top performers and dismiss lowest performers leads to the use of this evaluation tool.
What is forced ranking?