An Evaluation of Using Job Performance Tests to Validate ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) Qualification Standards

Maier, Milton H.; Hiatt, Catherine M.

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“…We offer here two examples of the types of situations in which data from broad national samples are used as standard deviations for the applicant pool. The first involves attempts to estimate the validity of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), such as those reported by Maier and Hiatt (1984) and Maier (1988). Each military occupational specialty (i.e., job) has a minimum entry standard established for it.…”

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Job-specific applicant pools and national norms for cognitive ability tests: Implications for range restriction corrections in validation research.

Sackett¹,

Ostgaard²

1994

Journal of Applied Psychology

103

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Correcting validity coefficients for range restriction requires the applicant pool predictor standard deviation (SD). As this is frequently unknown, some researchers use national norm SDs as estimates of the applicant pool SD. To test the proposition that job-specific applicant pools are markedly more homogeneous than broad samples of applicants for many jobs, job-specific applicant pool SDs on the Wonderlic Personnel Test for 80 jobs were compared with a large multijob applicant sample. For jobs at other than the lowest level of complexity, job-specific applicant pool SDs average 10% lower than the broad norm group SDs. Ninety percent of the job-specific applicant pool SDs lie within 20% of the norm group SD, suggesting that reducing a norm group SD by 20% provides a conservative estimate of the applicant pool SD for use in range restriction corrections for other than low-complexity jobs.

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Job-specific applicant pools and national norms for cognitive ability tests: Implications for range restriction corrections in validation research.

Sackett¹,

Ostgaard²

1994

Journal of Applied Psychology

103

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An Evaluation of Using Job Performance Tests to Validate ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) Qualification Standards

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Job-specific applicant pools and national norms for cognitive ability tests: Implications for range restriction corrections in validation research.

Job-specific applicant pools and national norms for cognitive ability tests: Implications for range restriction corrections in validation research.

Effects of Truncating a Reference Population on Correction of Validity Coefficients for Range Restriction

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