Fairness in Employment Testing:

Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery

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Publication Year:1989

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John A. Hartigan and Alexandra K. Wigdor, Editors; Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery, National Research Council
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Declining American competitiveness in world economic markets has renewed interest in employment testing as a way of putting the right workers in the right jobs. A new study of the U.S. Department of Labor's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Referral ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-16	(skim)
1 The Policy Context	17-28	(skim)
2 Issues in Equity and Law	29-51	(skim)
3 The Public Employment Service	52-72	(skim)
4 The GATB: Its Character and Psychometric Properties	73-98	(skim)
5 Problematic Features of the GATB: Test Administration, Speedness, and Coachability	99-118	(skim)
6 The Theory of Validity Generalization	119-133	(skim)
7 Validity Generalization Applied to the GATB	134-148	(skim)
8 GATB Validities	149-171	(skim)
9 Differential Validity and Differential Prediction	172-190	(skim)
10 The VG-GATB Program: Concept, Promotion, and Implementation	191-208	(skim)
11 In Whose Interest: Potential Effects of the VG-GATB Referral System	209-234	(skim)
12 Evaluation of Economic Claims	235-250	(skim)
13 Recommendations for Referral and Score Reporting	251-280	(skim)
14 Central Recommendations	281-290	(skim)
References	291-302	(skim)
Appendix A: A Synthesis of Research on Some Psychometric Properties of the GATB	303-324	(skim)
Appendix B: Tables Summarizing GATB Reliabilities	325-328	(skim)
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches, Committee Members and Staff	329-334	(skim)
Index	335-353	(skim)

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Declining American competitiveness in world economic markets has renewed interest in employment testing as a way of putting the right workers in the right jobs. A new study of the U.S. Department of Labor's General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) Referral System sheds light on key questions for America's employers: How well does the GATB predict job success? Are there scientific justifications for adjusting minority test scores? Will increased use of the GATB result in substantial increases in productivity?

Fairness in Employment Testing evaluates both the validity generalization techniques used to justify the use of the GATB across the spectrum of U.S. jobs and the policy of adjusting test scores to promote equal opportunity.

Fairness in Employment Testing:

Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery

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