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Two‐Step Testing in Employee Selection: Is score inflation a problem?
Author(s) -
Nye Christopher D.,
Do BenRoy,
Drasgow Fritz,
Fine Saul
Publication year - 2008
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.1468-2389.2008.00416.x
Subject(s) - cheating , test (biology) , psychology , the internet , selection (genetic algorithm) , sample (material) , perception , inflation (cosmology) , applied psychology , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , world wide web , paleontology , chemistry , physics , chromatography , neuroscience , theoretical physics , biology
Unproctored Internet testing in employee selection has become increasingly popular over the past few years. However, there is a concern that cheating during unproctored administrations may influence the test results in terms of score inflation. The current research attempts to determine the extent of cheating on an unproctored Internet test of perceptual speed by analyzing data from a parallel version of the test administered in a proctored setting. Among a sample of 856 job applicants from nine European countries, there was no evidence that cheating occurred. In fact, evidence of an effect operating in the opposite direction was obtained. These results indicate that the use of unproctored Internet testing is appropriate for this type of test.