Selection issues, testing technologies

Issues in the Selection and Implementation of Performance Testing Technologies.100... 

Unlike simulations, which are not the actual activities performed in the workplace but an abstraction or representation of aspects of those activities, work sample testing involves the actual activities performed on the job. These are measured or rated for use as a predictor. The logic applied to work sample testing is somewhat different from other selection technologies in that it employs a criterion-based perspective the performance being tested is usually a subset of the actual task employed and is derived chrectly from the content domain of that task. This stands in contrast to other types of selection methodologies where a measure of some construct (such as personality, aptitude, ability, or intelligence) is measured and related statistically (usually correlated) with actual job performance (see Swezey 1981 for a detailed discussion of this issue). 

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