Subgroup differences in situational judgment test scores: Evidence from large applicant samples

Development and Test of a Theory of Applicant Reactions to Branched Situational Judgment Tests

DEVELOPMENT AND TEST OF A THEORY OF APPLICANT REACTIONS TO BRANCHED SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS Craig Matthew Reddock Old Dominion University, 2017 Director: Dr. Richard N. Landers Branched situational judgment tests (BSJTs) are a recent innovation in personnel selection. Yet, there is little research supporting their use. Data from a qualitative pilot study indicated that BSJTs are expected to ...

Refining Situational Judgment Test Methods

Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) assess knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. They present scenarios, which are based on real events, to be judged, understood, scaled, and interpreted by the examinee. These instruments have been used to evaluate cognitive theories and training programs, and to predict performance. This paper presents the argument that SJTs have potential to renew and reinv...

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...

Validity evidence for the situational judgment test paradigm in emotional intelligence measurement.

To date, various measurement approaches have been proposed to assess emotional intelligence (EI). Recently, two new EI tests have been developed based on the situational judgment test (SJT) paradigm: the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU) and the Situational Test of Emotion Management (STEM). Initial attempts have been made to examine the construct-related validity of these new ...

Personality Test Validation Research: Present-employee and job applicant samples