Job-Derived Selection: A Preliminary Rept.
Abstract
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) is a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for analysis of individual jobs in terms of 187 job elements. On the basis of such an analysis it is possible to derive 32 job dimensions scores. Previous studies have found that regression equations consisting of these job dimension scores can be used as the basis for predicting (with very respectable correlations) the mean test scores of incumbents on a sample of jobs in terms of the 9 tests of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) of the U. S. Training and Employment Service. Since GATB tests are not available for general use, this study was directed toward using the PAQ as the basis for predicting test-related data for various commercially-available tests which were considered to measure the same 'constructs' as those measured by the GATB. The PAQ-based predictions for the criteria of mean test scores and cutoff scores were all highly significant. However, the predictions for actual validity coefficients were understandably low. The prediction of whether not specific tests would be 'valid' were also significant (in 75% of the cases for which the PAQ predicted a test would be valid, the tests indeed proved to be valid predictors).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA035624
Entities
People
- Angelo S. Denisi
- Ernest J. McCormick
- James B. Shaw
Organizations
- Purdue University