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The Measurement of Assessment Center Situations: Bem's Template Matching Technique for Examining Exercise Similarity
Author(s) -
Highhouse Scott,
Harris Michael M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1993.tb01057.x
Subject(s) - assessment center , similarity (geometry) , psychology , situational ethics , consistency (knowledge bases) , center (category theory) , matching (statistics) , applied psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , statistics , mathematics , image (mathematics) , chemistry , crystallography
The present study was concerned with investigating the nature of assessment center exercises. Bem and Funder's (1978) technique of classifying and comparing situations in behavioral terms was applied to the measurement of exercises in an assessment center with ratings reflecting exercise factors. Six assessors created templates for each of the four exercises. Intercorrelations between the mean template ratings suggested that the exercises were not viewed as similar situations. Moreover, some relationship was found between exercise similarity and performance consistency. It is proposed that these differences in exercise content may be responsible for the inability to find cross‐situational consistencies in candidate behavior in a typical assessment center. Practical implications and extensions of this study are discussed.