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Title

Adverse impact and test validation : a practitioner's guide to valid and defensible employment testing / by Dan Biddle.

Author

Biddle, Dan.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

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Description

xxii, 122 p. : ill.; 25 cm. +

Summary

Adverse impact analyses and test validation promote social justice and equity. Employers who unknowingly use invalid tests or recruitment procedures that have an adverse impact are reducing minority and/or female representation in their workforce, unfairly screening out qualified workers and (worst of all) just plain discriminating. This book provides you with analyses that allow you to identify which of your selection procedures have adverse impact. The validation steps will help you decide whether to keep the selection procedure (because it's valid), change it, or stop using it altogether. The CD included in the back cover of the book includes tools (which may be used on a trial evaluation basis) describing several of the functions described in the book, including Adverse Impact Toolkit®, Test Validation and Analysis Program® (TVAP®), and Guidelines Oriented Job Analysis® (GOJA®) Manual. This guide goes beyond the concepts, theories and ideas behind adverse impact and test validation. It not only explains what to do but crucially, also shows you how to do it.

Alternative Title

Guidelines Oriented Job Analysis (GOJA) manual

Subject

Employment tests

Note

• CD-ROM includes: Adverse impact toolkit; Test validation and analysis program; Guidelines Oriented Job Analysis (GOJA) manual; Guidelines Oriented Job Analysis (GOJA) end user licence agreement.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-113) and index.

Contents

Adverse impact -- Selection procedure development and validation -- Developing, validating, and analyzing written tests -- Developing, validating, and analyzing structured interviews -- Developing, validating, and analyzing training, education, and experience requirements -- Using selection procedures cutoff scores, banding, ranking, and weighting.

Call Number

JBF 05-560

ISBN

0566086549 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004027183

OCLC

57007926

Author

Biddle, Dan.

Title

Adverse impact and test validation : a practitioner's guide to valid and defensible employment testing / by Dan Biddle.

Imprint

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [111]-113) and index.

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Research Call Number

JBF 05-560 [Text]

*WSC-4500 [CD-ROM]