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Performance Assessment for the Workplace.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Performance Assessment for the Workplace; Copyright; Contents; Contents of Volume II; Preface; Overview; THE JPM PROJECT; ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; What is Performance?; What is a Job?; What is a Task?; MEASURING JOB PERFORMANCE; Relative Versus Absolute Measures; Sampling Issues; Test Administration; EVALUATION: THE QUALITY OF THE PERFORMANCE MEASURES; Reliability; Validity; Fairness Analysis; THE FINAL STEP: LINKING ENLISTMENT STANDARDS TO JOB PERFORMANCE; 1 Psychological Testing and the Challenge of the Criterion ; INTRODUCTION; AMERICAN TESTING TECHNOLOGY.
- The Science of TestingPractical Applications; The Army Alpha and Beyond; THE CRITERION PROBLEM IN VALIDATION RESEARCH; Evolution of the Criterion Problem; Performance Appraisal; The Importance of the Criterion Issue; 2 Policy Goals and Testing ; SELECTION AND TRAINING GOALS; RECRUITING THE FORCE; Demographic Trends in the Youth Population; Recruiting Policy and Fairness Issues; The Changing Technological Environment; THE ROLE OF TESTING; The Evolution of Mental Aptitude Screening in the Military; The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery; ENLISTMENT STANDARDS AND QUALITY GOALS.
- The Contemporary SystemHow Much Quality is Enough?; 3 Improving Job Performance Criteria for Selection Tests ; THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; Phase I: Developing Performance Measures; Jobs Viewed as a Collection of Tasks; Assessment of Job Proficiency; The JPM Criterion Construct; Benchmarks and Surrogates; Phase II: Linking Enlistment Standards to Job Performance; THE RESEARCH PLAN; Selection of Occupations for Study; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marine Corps; Types of Criterion Measures Developed; Hands-On Tests; Walk-Through Performance Tests; Simulations; Job Knowledge Tests; Ratings.
- Types of Predictors AssessedDevelopment of Performance Measures; SIZE OF THE RESEARCH EFFORT; 4 The Development of Job Performance Measures ; JOB PERFORMANCE AS A CONSTRUCT; STEPS IN DEVELOPING JOB PERFORMANCE MEASURES; THE JOB CONTENT UNIVERSE; Task Analysis; Trait Analysis and Task-by-Trait Analysis; Generic Task-by-Trait Analysis; Local Task-by-Trait Analysis; Cognitive Task Analysis; Characteristics of Job Tasks and Traits; Importance; Frequency; Difficulty; Modifiability; Variability; Other Characteristics; The JPM Definition of the Job Content Universe; DEFINING THE DOMAIN OF INTEREST.
- Approaches to Task SamplingSpecification of Test Content; Task Editing; An Example: Marine Corps Infantryman; SCORING HANDS-ON TESTS; Scoring Performance on Tasks; Computing Test Scores; CONCLUSION; 5 The Testing of Personnel ; SAMPLING PERSONNEL; Specifying the Personnel to be Tested; Selecting the Personnel to be Tested; THE IMPORTANCE OF STANDARDIZATION; Standardization and Prediction; Standardization and Performance Standards; STANDARDIZATION ISSUES IN HANDS-ON TESTING; Standardizing the Test Conditions; Selecting and Training the Test Administrators; Calibrating the Test Administration.