Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Convergent Validity, Discriminant Validity, Job Performance

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

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Steps in the selection process: screen applications, test and review work samples. 3: check references and background, make a selection. The extent to which a measurement generates consistent results. Ex. a test of someone"s intelligence should should generate similar scores when measured on two occasions two weeks apart. The extent to which performance on a measure is related to what the measure is designed to assess. Construct validity: degree to which a test is an accurate measure of the construct it purports to measure. Construct: abstract, theoretical concept proposed to explain aspects of behaviour. There should be evidence of convergent validity: scores on a test converge with scores on other known tests of the construct. Ex. scores on a newly developed intelligence test should correlate with scores on existing measures of intelligence. There should be evidence of discriminant validity: scores on a test are unrelated to scores on tests of other constructs.