[Excerpt] Greater use of tests assessing competence in verbal, mathematical, technical arenas and in specific occupations for selecting workers will have important effects on the economy. First, the rewards for developing the competencies measured by the tests will rise and this will increase the supply of workers whh these competencies. Tests like the General Aptitude Test Battery predict job performance because they measure or are correlated with a large set of developed abilities which are causa}]y related to productivity and not because they are correlated with an inherited ability to learn. Legal barriers to increased use of tests assessing verbal, mathematical and technical competence have contributed to our society's tendency to unde...
The Secretary of Labor's Commission (SCANS), made up of business, labor, and education leaders, was ...
Attention has been focused on whether U.S. competitiveness in a global market can be sustained if th...
Do standardized tests that are used to reward or sanction schools for their academic performance, kn...
[Excerpt] Greater use of tests assessing competence in verbal, mathematical, technical arenas and in...
The economic impact of optimal selection using ability tests is far higher than is commonly known. F...
[Excerpt] Educational and political leaders are calling for improvements in the signalling and certi...
Greater use of employment tests for selecting workers will have important effects on the economy. Fi...
[Excerpt] Research shows that the careful use of talent assessments can result in increased producti...
From the 1960s to the 1990s, the field of personnel psychology (a.k.a. in-dustrial-organizational ps...
[Excerpt] The fundamental cause of the low effort level of American students, parents, and voters in...
Pre-employment testing has become one of the fastest-growing tools used to select successful employe...
The testing requirements enunciated by the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunit...
A void exists between the rapid growth of post-high school trade and technical education and the dev...
The development of aptitude tests, as a means of selecting applicants for employment, has accompanie...
• • Educational reform will include a means of standard-izing testing. • • Testing is useful for mor...
The Secretary of Labor's Commission (SCANS), made up of business, labor, and education leaders, was ...
Attention has been focused on whether U.S. competitiveness in a global market can be sustained if th...
Do standardized tests that are used to reward or sanction schools for their academic performance, kn...
[Excerpt] Greater use of tests assessing competence in verbal, mathematical, technical arenas and in...
The economic impact of optimal selection using ability tests is far higher than is commonly known. F...
[Excerpt] Educational and political leaders are calling for improvements in the signalling and certi...
Greater use of employment tests for selecting workers will have important effects on the economy. Fi...
[Excerpt] Research shows that the careful use of talent assessments can result in increased producti...
From the 1960s to the 1990s, the field of personnel psychology (a.k.a. in-dustrial-organizational ps...
[Excerpt] The fundamental cause of the low effort level of American students, parents, and voters in...
Pre-employment testing has become one of the fastest-growing tools used to select successful employe...
The testing requirements enunciated by the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Equal Employment Opportunit...
A void exists between the rapid growth of post-high school trade and technical education and the dev...
The development of aptitude tests, as a means of selecting applicants for employment, has accompanie...
• • Educational reform will include a means of standard-izing testing. • • Testing is useful for mor...
The Secretary of Labor's Commission (SCANS), made up of business, labor, and education leaders, was ...
Attention has been focused on whether U.S. competitiveness in a global market can be sustained if th...
Do standardized tests that are used to reward or sanction schools for their academic performance, kn...