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Strategic individual assessment: Issues in providing reliable descriptions
Author(s) -
Ryan Ann Marie,
Barbera Karen M.,
Sackett Paul R.
Publication year - 1990
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.3930290304
Subject(s) - comparability , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , applied psychology , narrative , assessment center , power (physics) , linguistics , physics , philosophy , mathematics , quantum mechanics , combinatorics
Individual assessment involves one psychologist making an assessment of an individual for personnel‐related purposes. Individual assessment practice is reviewed, and research on reliability is presented. A study examining the comparability of conclusions reached by consumers is presented. Eighty‐six students and thirty‐eight managers read nine narrative assessment reports (three of each of three job candidates) and attempted to determine which reports described the same candidate. None of the subjects could correctly group the nine reports; a sizeable proportion did no better than chance in grouping the reports. Implications for assessors and consumers of individual assessments are discussed.