Reducing adverse impact in high-stakes testing

A critical goal for psychological science in the 21st century is to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion occupational contexts. One arena which will continue benefit from a focus on equity high-stakes testing, such as assessments used personnel selection classification decisions. We define an equitable test one that minimizes group differences based protected classes race, sex, ethnicity, while predicting criterion performance equivalently across groups. In this article, we provide overview of concepts adverse impact, predictive bias. discuss how tests Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) could be driven by crystallized intelligence (i.e., acquired knowledge), emphasized ASVAB subtests related socioeconomic status. suggest shifting some away or supplementing them with other cognitive constructs mitigate without sacrificing validity. particular, evidence attention control—the domain-general ability maintain task-relevant information resist distraction—could more path forward.