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Test development and use: New twists on old questions
Author(s) -
Cascio Wayne F.,
Aguinis Herman
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.20068
Subject(s) - generalization , test (biology) , psychology , statistical hypothesis testing , significance testing , development (topology) , cutoff , computer science , applied psychology , epistemology , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , mathematical analysis , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Over the past several decades, there have been some significant advances in psychological science, specifically in our knowledge about important questions to address with respect to the development and use of assessment tools. This article focuses on developments in research and guidelines for practice in five selected areas that, if applied, will lead to more informed use of assessment tools. The five areas that we discuss are validity generalization, statistical significance testing, criterion measures, cutoff scores, and cross‐validation. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.