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Alternate Approaches to Understanding the Psychometric Properties of Assessment Centers: An analysis of the structure and equivalence of exercise ratings
Author(s) -
Hoffman Brian J.,
Meade Adam
Publication year - 2012
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.1468-2389.2012.00581.x
Subject(s) - psychology , equivalence (formal languages) , confirmatory factor analysis , scale (ratio) , applied psychology , artifact (error) , assessment center , social psychology , cognitive psychology , structural equation modeling , statistics , mathematics , discrete mathematics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , physics
The present study uses an alternate analytical framework to examine the degree to which performance is differentiated by dimensions in assessment center ( AC ) exercises and whether these performance dimensions are rated on the same scale across exercises. Confirmatory factor analysis likelihood ratio tests supported the presence of three broad latent performance dimensions in each of three AC exercises. Additional tests revealed that five of six manifest performance dimensions were rated on the same psychological scale across exercises. Taken together, our results support a multidimensional interpretation of AC exercises and provide empirical support to the notion that differences in AC performance across exercises reflect true performance, rather than a measurement artifact.