Sociology: work & labour
Fairness in Employment Testing
Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery
by John A. Hartigan and Alexandra K. Wigdor, Editors; Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery, National Research Council
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Declining American competitiveness in world economic markets has renewed interest in employment testing as a way of putting the right workers in the right jobs. A new study of the U.S. Department of Labor's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Referral System sheds light on key questions for America's employers: How well does the GATB predict job success? Are there scientific justifications for adjusting minority test scores? Will increased use of the GATB result in substantial increases in productivity? Fairness in Employment Testing evaluates both the validity generalization techniques used to justify the use of the GATB across the spectrum of U.S. jobs and the policy of adjusting test scores to promote equal opportunity.
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- Publisher National Academies Press
- Publication Date January 1989
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780309074735
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 93.75 USD
- Pages368
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions9 x 6 inches
- Biblio Notes1989
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