Situational Tests in Student Selection: An Examination of Predictive Validity, Adverse Impact, and Construct Validity

Situational Tests in Student Selection: An Examination of Predictive Validity, Adverse Impact, and Construct Validity

The Flemish Admission Exam `Medical and Dental Studies' is comprised of four cognitive ability tests and four situational tests, namely two work samples (i.e., a lecture and a medical text) and two video-based situational judgement tests (i.e., a physician±patient interaction and a medical expert discussion). On the basis of the Admission Exam scores of 941 candidates (359 men, 582 women) this ...

An Evaluation of the Construct Validity of Situational Judgment Tests

Construct validity in psychological tests.

Validation of psychological tests has not yet been adequately conceptualized, as the APA Committee on Psychological Tests learned when it undertook (1950-54) to specify what qualities should be investigated before a test is published. In order to make coherent recommendations the Committee found it necessary to distinguish four types of validity, established by different types of research and r...

Validity of Measurement Content Validity Face Validity Concurrent Validity Predictive Validity Construct Validity Thinking Critically About Everyday Information

An essential component of an operational definition is measurement. A simple and accurate definition of measurement is the assignment of numbers to a variable in which we are interested. These numbers will provide the raw material for our statistical analysis. Measurement is so common and taken for granted that we seldom ask why we measure things or worry about the different forms that measurem...

Construct validity and case validity in assessment.

Clinical assessment relies on both construct validity, which focuses on the accuracy of conclusions about a psychological phenomenon drawn from responses to a measure, and case validity, which focuses on the synthesis of the full range of psychological phenomena pertaining to the concern or question at hand. Whereas construct validity is grounded in understanding causal influences of a distinct...