Performance Assessment for the Workplace,

Volume I

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Size: 272 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1991

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Alexandra K. Wigdor and Bert F. Green, Jr., Editors; Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel, National Research Council
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Although ability testing has been an American preoccupation since the 1920s, comparatively little systematic attention has been paid to understanding and measuring the kinds of human performance that tests are commonly used to predict--such as success at school or work. ...
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"The volumes represent an excellent overview of the scope of problems one confronts in the measurement of job performance . . ." Contemporary Psychology
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Front Matter	i-xii
Overview	1-14	(skim)
1. Psychological Testing and the Challenge of the Criterion	15-30	(skim)
2. Policy Goals and Testing	31-55	(skim)
3. Improving Job Performance Criteria for Selection Tests	56-72	(skim)
4. The Development of Job Performance Measures	73-102	(skim)
5. The Testing of Personnel	103-115	(skim)
6. Evaluating the Quality of Performance Measures: Reliability	116-127	(skim)
7. Evaluating the Quality of Performance Measures: Content Representativeness	128-140	(skim)
8. Evaluating the Quality of Performance Measures: Criterion-Related Validity Evidence	141-183	(skim)
9. The Management of Human Resources	184-206	(skim)
Coda: The JPM Project and Accession Policy	207-210	(skim)
References	211-224	(skim)
Appendix A: Service Bibliographies	225-246	(skim)
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches	247-250	(skim)
Index	251-260	(skim)

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Although ability testing has been an American preoccupation since the 1920s, comparatively little systematic attention has been paid to understanding and measuring the kinds of human performance that tests are commonly used to predict--such as success at school or work. Now, a sustained, large-scale effort has been made to develop measures that are very close to actual performance on the job. The four military services have carried out an ambitious study, called the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, that brings new sophistication to the measurement of performance in work settings.
Volume 1 analyzes the JPM experience in the context of human resource management policy in the military. Beginning with a historical overview of the criterion problem, it looks closely at substantive and methodological issues in criterion research suggested by the project: the development of performance measures; sampling, logistical, and standardization problems; evaluating the reliability and content representativeness of performance measures; and the relationship between predictor scores and performance measures--valuable information that can also be useful in the civilian workplace.

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"The volumes represent an excellent overview of the scope of problems one confronts in the measurement of job performance . . ." Contemporary Psychology

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