ADM 3333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Criterion Validity, Personnel Selection, Content Validity
2 Dec 2016
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An employer"s goal is to hire an applicant who possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, or other attributes (ksaos) required to perform the job. ***construct: an idea or concept constructed or invoked to explain relationships between observations. Reliability: the degree to which observed scores are free from random measurement errors; an indication of the stability or dependability of a set of measurements over repeated applications of the measurement procedure. True score: the average score that an individual would earn on an infinite number of administrations of the same test or parallel versions of the same test. Error score (or measurement score): the hypothetical difference between an observed score and a true score. Construct and content validity: validation strategies that provide evidence based on test content. Criterion validity: related validity provides evidence based on relationships to other variables. Predictive and concurrent evidence for test criterion relationships.
