Exam 13: Simulation Tests

The development of an Assessment Center starts with a job analysis to identify clusters of job activities that are the important parts of the job of interest.

Operating a machine is an example of a(n) ____________ test.

Tasks that have standardized operations or products or have easily defined verbal or interactive components are more appropriate in performance tests than tasks not so characterized.

Tasks that a large majority of applicants can do are useful in discriminating among good and poor applicants.

Partially because of the cost and lack of convergent and discriminant validity of Assessment Centers, selection specialists have turned their attention to other types of simulation devices.

The Management Progress Study of AT&T marked the beginning of the use of assessment centers for industrial organizations.

In general, tasks chosen to be represented in a performance test are those that have a strong bearing on job performance.

From a cost standpoint, when developing a simulation test it is preferable to select tasks that require a long time to perform rather than tasks that require a short time to perform.

Research shows that the adverse impact of the performance tests was less than that of the written tests.

Which of the following behavioral dimensions is NOT frequently measured in Assessment Centers?

All else being equal, it is preferable to have the applicant's performance on one part of the test be closely tied to a previous part of the test.

The development of an assessment center starts with a job analysis to identify clusters of job activities that are important parts of the job of interest.These job clusters are referred to as:

The major duty of an assessor in an Assessment Center is to record the behavior of a participant in an exercise and use the data to rate the participant on each behavioral dimension appropriate for the exercise.