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PARALLEL TEST FORM DEVELOPMENT: A PROCEDURE FOR ALTERNATE PREDICTORS AND AN EXAMPLE
Author(s) -
CLAUSE CATHERINE S.,
MULLINS MORELL E.,
NEE MARGUERITE T.,
PULAKOS ELAINE,
SCHMITT NEAL
Publication year - 1998
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.1744-6570.1998.tb00722.x
Subject(s) - parallelism (grammar) , test (biology) , cronbach's alpha , psychology , situational ethics , item analysis , short forms , cognitive psychology , social psychology , psychometrics , computer science , developmental psychology , parallel computing , clinical psychology , paleontology , biology
A procedure for developing alternate test forms that are parallel in the sense that scores on the different forms have similar means, standard deviations, and factor structures is described and applied to a bio‐data inventory and a situational judgment test. Careful consideration of item‐by‐item parallelism during development resulted in alternate forms that were parallel at the item level. Further, comparison with a biodata test form comprised of items randomly selected from a pool of biodata items revealed that for the types of measures described here it may be necessary to produce parallel forms of each item to create alternate forms that are parallel in the way in which Cronbach (1947) originally defined parallelism.