Using Ability Tests in Selection

Cognitive Reflection and General Mental Ability as Predictors of Job Performance

“…The fourth contribution was that GMA, once again, showed to be the most relevant cognitive predictor of job performance and academic performance. This finding agrees with the results of previous meta-analyses of the relationship between GMA and performance (e.g., [73,86,93]. The fifth contribution was that GMA was shown to predict academic performance independently of the measure used to evaluate the educational outcomes, although the magnitude of the correlation was not the same across the three measures of academic performance.…”

“…Concerning the results for GMA, as can be seen, GMA predicted job performance very efficiently. The observed validity was 0.36 (p < 0.001), which is a similar value to the one found in the meta-analyses of the relationship between GMA and job performance for occupations of high level of job complexity (e.g., [63,73,86]. Regarding the educational performance criteria, the correlations of GMA were 0.20 (p < 0.001), 0.50 (p < 0.001), and 0.19 (p < 0.02) with GPA, UES, and EG, respectively.…”

Meta-Analysis of the Validity of General Mental Ability for Five Performance Criteria: Hunter and Hunter (1984) Revisited

“…Thousands of validity studies and many meta-analyses have shown that they are excellent predictors of different organizational criteria, such as supervisory ratings, work sample tests, job knowledge acquisition, grades, production records, instructor ratings, promotions, sales, and wages, and that the correlation between GMA and performance appears to be similar across jobs that differ considerably in content (Schmidt and Hunter, 1998; Murphy, 2002; Ones et al, 2012; Schmitt, 2014; Salgado, 2017a; Berges et al, 2018; Rodríguez and López-Basterra, 2018). Furthermore, the theoretical foundations of GMA are stronger than for any other personnel selection measure (Schmidt and Hunter, 1998; Hunt, 2011; Deary, 2012; Salgado, 2017a). For all these reasons, researchers have claimed that GMA tests play a fundamental role in personnel selection (Schmidt and Hunter, 1998; Murphy, 2002; Schmitt, 2014).…”

Integrative Learning Technologies For Psychological And Physiological Support For Professional Firefighters

“…Researchers note the need to take into account personal https: //doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.09.02.45 Corresponding Author: Inna S. Kostrikina Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 392 and individual characteristics in the therapy and training of firefighters (Psarros et al, 2017). In general, the parameters for employee selection in hazardous and high-performance occupations have much in common (Salgado, 2017;Schmidt, Oh, & Shaffer, 2016).…”