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AN EVALUATION OF ALTERNATE SCORING METHODS FOR THE MIXED STANDARD SCALE
Author(s) -
HUGHES GARRY L.,
PRIEN ERICH P.
Publication year - 1986
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.1744-6570.1986.tb00598.x
Subject(s) - psychology , scale (ratio) , inter rater reliability , statistics , reliability (semiconductor) , social psychology , clinical psychology , rating scale , developmental psychology , mathematics , quantum mechanics , power (physics) , physics
This study investigated the psychometric properties of three methods of scoring a Mixed Standard Scale (MSS) performance evaluation: the patterned procedure as corrected by Saal (1979); a simple nonpatterned scoring procedure suggested by Prien, Jones, and Miller (1977), which gives equal weights to the performance statements; and a procedure that assigned differential weights to each statement on the basis of scale values provided by a panel of subject matter experts. Interrater reliabilities, scale variances for averaged ratings, and a convergent/discriminant validity analysis, which included an alternate method of job skill ratings, indicated no difference in the score distribution variance, interrater reliability, or validity of different method scores.