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The Role of Biodata and Intelligence in the Predictive Validity of Assessment Centres
Author(s) -
Fox Shaul,
LevonaiHazak Sigal,
Hoffman Michael
Publication year - 1995
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/j.1468-2389.1995.tb00003.x
Subject(s) - psychology , predictive validity , incremental validity , applied psychology , social psychology , test validity , clinical psychology , psychometrics
The present study assessed three of Klimoski and Brickner's 1 explanations for assessment centres' predictive validity: criterion contamination, the influence of biodata, and the effect of assessed intellectual level. Data were collected in a major Israeli industrial organisation on the job performance and advancement of 91 managers who had participated in an assessment centre four to seven years earlier. Little empirical support was garnered for Klimoski and Brickner's claims. Assessment centre scores were found to be similarly correlated in a significant fashion with both contaminated and uncontaminated criteria of later management performance. Although biodata and intelligence variables were correlated with assessors' evaluations, they did not notably contribute to the predictive validity of assessment centre scores. It seems that information reached by observing behaviours reflected during exercises and simulations are the main factors affecting the validity of assessment centres.