NCE16
what test have uniform procedures for scoring and administration?
Standardized tests
this term helps clients secure jobs and can help them find gay-friendly employers.
Networking
In two-parent families, if both parents work this is called a ?
dual-career or dual-income family
Supervisors who rate workers often suffer from?
rater bias
This term consists of a managerial or professional position with the possibility for advancement.
dual career
Eighty percent of all jobs are not advertised and thus job seekers need to network. What is the name of this term?
The Hidden Job Market
When a supervisor erroneously rates the majority of workers as average, it is called the?
central tendency bias
The term used when a person takes a job below his or her level of skill, expertise, and training (e.g., a PhD who works in an entry-level fast food position).
Underemployment
A supervisor generalizing about an employee based on a single characteristic (e.g., giving a worker who is kind a higher rating than a worker who is just as good but isn’t kind).
the halo effect
This takes place when U.S. companies rely on labor from another country in order to save money (i.e., the salaries would be lower). This can also result in fewer jobs in the United States.
Outsourcing
This occurs when the rating reflects primarily the worker’s recent performance (rather than the entire rating period) since this effect suggests we remember best things that are presented last.
The recency effect
What is the highest score minus the lowest score called.
The range
What are the items that provide counselors with information on thousands of tests?
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) and Tests in Print (TIP)
This term describes women who enter or reenter the workforce after being at home. This often occurs after a divorce or the death of a partner or spouse
Displaced homemaker
Employees with identical or similar jobs meet as a group to solve
problems and come up with solutions to help management.
Quality circles
What are the 3 measures of central tendency?
Mean , Median and Mode
What is the term that describes a person who is unemployed due to downsizing, a company relocation, or the fact that the company closed the business.
Dislocated worker
A score is ____ when it is unaltered?
Raw
This tells the counselor the percent of scores equal to or below the score you are investigating?
Percentile Rank
When the mean, median and mode have the same point in the center of the bell shape it is called?
A normal curve
When a curve leans, we say it's skewed.
If the tail points to the left, the curve is _________; if it points to the right, it is ___________.
negatively skewed and positive skewed
Sixty-eight percent of the scores will fall between
+/-1 SD
95% of all scores will fall between ?
+/-2 SD
A raw score can be converted into what so that the scores relate
to the normal bell curve?
standard scores(e.g., t-scores, z-scores, percentile rank, standard deviation, or stanine)
99.7% of all scores fall between?
+/- 3 SD