HROB 3070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wonderlic Test, Criterion Validity, Inter-Rater Reliability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 3070
• Professor: Kevin Mc Dermott

Document Summary

An employer"s goal is to hire an applicant who possesses the knowledge, skills, abiliies, or other atributes (ksaos) required to preform the job. Ksaos are quaniiable, only speak with applicant in an interview about ksaos. How do hr managers help this process: reliable measures of ksao, avoiding errors when measuring ksaos, valid measures of ksao, making sure that about measures of ksaos actually measure the outcomes that we want. True score the average score that an individual would earn on an ininite number of administraions of the same test or parallel version of the same test. Error score (or measurement error) the hypotheical diference between an observed score and a true score. Consistency between applicants keep the condiions the same so it can be repeated: hiring process, interview quesion, tesing procedures, locaions and environment of measurements, comfort aids for applicants (water botle, emoional approach towards applicants. Do the measure more than once (test-re-test)