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A Different Look at Assessment Centers: Views of Assessment Center Users
Author(s) -
Lievens Filip,
Goemaere Hans
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2389.00122
Subject(s) - assessment center , center (category theory) , psychology , sample (material) , selection (genetic algorithm) , medical education , dimension (graph theory) , applied psychology , computer science , medicine , artificial intelligence , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , pure mathematics , crystallography
This study aims to shed light on possible problems of assessment center users and designers when developing and implementing assessment centers. Semi‐structured interviews with a representative sample of assessment center users in Flanders revealed that, besides a large variability in assessment center practice, practitioners experience problems with dimension selection and definition, exercise design, line/staff managers as assessors, distinguishing between observation and evaluation, and with the content of assessor training programs. Solutions for these problems are suggested.