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Faking on a situational judgment test in a medical school selection setting: Effect of different scoring methods?
Author(s) -
de Leng W. E.,
StegersJager K. M.,
Born M. Ph.,
Themmen A. P. N.
Publication year - 2019
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/ijsa.12251
Subject(s) - psychology , selection (genetic algorithm) , test (biology) , situational ethics , personnel selection , social psychology , clinical psychology , applied psychology , statistics , artificial intelligence , computer science , paleontology , mathematics , biology
We examined the occurrence of faking on a rating situational judgment test (SJT) by comparing SJT scores and response styles of the same individuals across two naturally occurring situations. An SJT for medical school selection was administered twice to the same group of applicants ( N = 317) under low‐stakes ( T 1) and high‐stakes ( T 2) circumstances. The SJT was scored using three different methods that were differentially affected by response tendencies. Applicants used significantly more extreme responding on T 2 than T 1. Faking (higher SJT score on T 2) was only observed for scoring methods that controlled for response tendencies. Scoring methods that do not control for response tendencies introduce systematic error into the SJT score, which may lead to inaccurate conclusions about the existence of faking.