Exam 6: Selection and Development

Training is best described as __________.

Under the ADA, blanket exclusions of individuals with a particular disability are permissible.

With the complex nature of the police role and the need to use discretion wisely, increased emphasis should be placed on using pedagogical methods of instruction.

Pre-employment standards, pre-employment testing, and recruit screening methods are all examples of __________.

As an applicant trying to get on the average police department, explain the steps that you would have to go through during the hiring process.

The Supreme Court upheld the police department's requirement of 45 hours of college credit for applicants:

Generally, a criminal record will automatically disqualify one from police service.

Matching -Career growth

This court case upheld drug-testing requirements and the rejection of applicants who tested positive for narcotics:

Cognitive learning is training that goes beyond a specific skill or task and instead focuses on the process that establishes correct and valid thinking patterns.

This court case upheld the standard requirement that police applicants not have recent or excessive histories of marijuana use:

This case ruled that having a minimum height requirement was discriminatory:

As the chief of police, would you want to screen in or screen out the applicants? Explain why you would select one over the other.

What is the purpose of in-service training?

Matching -Pedagogy

Police Training Officer (PTO) emphasizes adult learning principles utilizing problem based learning.

Some jurisdictions have ruled polygraph examinations for applicants illegal due to false positives.

What is an assessment center?

Which of the following is NOT a strategy suggested by the Recruitment Toolkit?

This court case ruled that selection and promotion tests must be shown to be related to job performance: