Declining American competitiveness in world economic markets has renewed interest in employment testing as a way of putting the right workers in the right jobs. A new study of the U.S. Department of Labor's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Referral System sheds light on key questions for America's employers: How well does the GATB predict job success? Are there scientific justifications for adjusting minority test scores? Will increased use of the GATB result in substantial increases in productivity? Fairness in Employment Testing evaluates both the validity generalization techniques used to justify the use of the GATB across the spectrum of U.S. jobs and the policy of adjusting test scores to promote equal opportunity.
John A. Hartigan and Alexandra K. Wigdor, Editors; Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery, National Research Council
Front MatterSummary1 The Policy Context2 Issues in Equity and Law3 The Public Employment Service4 The GATB: Its Character and Psychometric Properties5 Problematic Features of the GATB: Test Administration, Speedness, and Coachability6 The Theory of Validity Generalization7 Validity Generalization Applied to the GATB8 GATB Validities9 Differential Validity and Differential Prediction10 The VG-GATB Program: Concept, Promotion, and Implementation11 In Whose Interest: Potential Effects of the VG-GATB Referral System12 Evaluation of Economic Claims13 Recommendations for Referral and Score Reporting14 Central RecommendationsReferencesAppendix A: A Synthesis of Research on Some Psychometric Properties of the GATBAppendix B: Tables Summarizing GATB ReliabilitiesAppendix C: Biographical Sketches, Committee Members and StaffIndex
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