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

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

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Bring at least 2 pencils, an eraser, and student id. After reading week you can look through your exam with doug. Steps in the selection process: screen applications and resumes, test and review work samples, interview, check references and background, make a selection. The extent to which a measurement generates consistent results. 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 (abstract, theoretical concept that explains behaviour) it purports to measure. Convergent validity: scores on a test converge with scores on other known tests of the construct (strong correlations between test results). Discriminant validity: scores on a test are unrelated to scores on tests of other constructs (personality test should not be the same as intelligence test) You hope for a strong correlation with convergent validity and a poor correlation with discriminant validity.