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THE USE OF SELF‐ASSESSMENTS IN EXAMINING
Author(s) -
PRIMOFF ERNEST S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1980.tb02350.x
Subject(s) - psychology , applied psychology , test (biology) , raw score , social psychology , clinical psychology , raw data , statistics , paleontology , mathematics , biology
Self‐assessments combined with other evidences such as achievements and test scores lead to increased accuracy and fairness in examining. The use of self‐ratings to evaluate an applicant requires adjustment for degree of understanding of the element to be rated and for applicant's subjective base for rating. However, raw ratings may be used for psychometric analysis. Since minorities are usually represented in significant numbers among applicants but not in employed groups, this kind of analysis appears promising for studies designed to reduce adverse impact of tests and other measuring devices. An initial exploratory example of such analysis is described in detail.