Management and Organizational Studies 1023A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Convergent Validity, Face Validity, Content Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1023A/B
• Professor: Barry Hawn

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Steps in the selection process: screen applicants and resumes, test and review work samples, interview, check references and background, make selection. Criteria for evaluating selection methods: reliability, validity, ability to generalize, practical value, legal acceptability. Reliability: reliability: the extent to which a measurement generates consistent results, ex. A test of someone"s physical strength should generate similar scores when measured on two occasions two weeks apart. Validity: validity: the extent to which performance on a measure is related to what the measure is designed to assess, ex. Toe size is not a valid indicator of who is or isn"t a good performer at work: validity evidence, construct validity, criterion-related validity, content validity, face validity. Construct validity: construct: abstract, theoretical concept proposed to explain aspects of behaviour, ex. Scores on our newly developed intelligence test should correlate with scores on existing measures of intelligence: discriminant validity, scores on a test are unrelated to scores on tests of other constructs, ex.