Situational Tests in Metropolitan Police Recruit Selection

Use of Diagnostic Small Groups in Police Recruit Selection and Training

The Metropolitan Police Act of 1829

Face Recognition by Metropolitan Police Super-Recognisers

Face recognition is used to prove identity across a wide variety of settings. Despite this, research consistently shows that people are typically rather poor at matching faces to photos. Some professional groups, such as police and passport officers, have been shown to perform just as poorly as the general public on standard tests of face recognition. However, face recognition skills are subjec...

Evaluating cognitive ability, knowledge tests and situational judgement tests for postgraduate selection.

OBJECTIVES   This study aimed to evaluate the validity and utility of and candidate reactions towards cognitive ability tests, and current selection methods, including a clinical problem-solving test (CPST) and a situational judgement test (SJT), for postgraduate selection. METHODS;  This was an exploratory, longitudinal study to evaluate the validities of two cognitive ability tests (measuring...

How "situational" is judgment in situational judgment tests?

Whereas situational judgment tests (SJTs) have traditionally been conceptualized as low-fidelity simulations with an emphasis on contextualized situation descriptions and context-dependent knowledge, a recent perspective views SJTs as measures of more general domain (context-independent) knowledge. In the current research, we contrasted these 2 perspectives in 3 studies by removing the situatio...