Alternative Validation Strategies is a groundbreaking compendium of the most current research and practical guidelines for time- and cost-saving alternatives to the traditional test validation strategies associated with selection processes. The “state of the science” strategies outlined in this valuable resource will help employers to evaluate the inferences drawn from their selection procedures while offering practices that meet stringent legal and regulatory requirements.
Alternative Validation Strategies is a groundbreaking compendium of the most current research and practical guidelines for time- and cost-saving alternatives to the traditional test validation strategies associated with selection processes. The “state of the science” strategies outlined in this valuable resource will help employers to evaluate the inferences drawn from their selection procedures while offering practices that meet stringent legal and regulatory requirements.
Foreword xiii
Allan H. Church and Janine Waclawski
Preface xv
S. Morton McPhail
The Authors xxiii
1 Development of Validation Evidence 1
S. Morton McPhail
Part 1: Applying Existing Validity Evidence
2 Transportation of Validation Results 29
Wade M. Gibson and Julie A. Caplinger
3 Job Component Validity: Background, Current Research, and
Applications 82
Calvin C. Hoffman, Boris Rashkovsky, and Erika D’Egidio
4 Synthetic Validity: A Technique of Use (Finally) 122
Jeff W. Johnson
5 Validity Generalization as a Test Validation Approach 159
Michael A. McDaniel
6 Generalizing Personality-Based Validity Evidence 181
Joyce Hogan, Scott Davies, and Robert Hogan
Part 2: Developing New Evidence for Validity
7 Consortium Studies 233
Nancy T. Tippins and William H. Macey
8 Application of Content Validation Methods to Broader
Constructs 252
Damian J. Stelly and Harold W. Goldstein
9 Practical Construct Validation for Personnel Selection 317
Timothy E. Landon and Richard D. Arvey
Part 3: Implementation
10 Implementation Based on Alternate Validation Procedures:
Ranking, Cut Scores, Banding, and Compensatory Models 349
Lorin Mueller, Dwayne Norris, and Scott Oppler
Part 4: Where Do We Go from Here?
11 The Validation of Personnel Decisions in the Twenty-First
Century: Back to the Future 409
Frank J. Landy
Name Index 427
Subject Index 435
S. Morton McPhail is a senior vice president and managing
principal with Valtera Corporation (formerly Jeanneret &
Associates, Inc.). He has served as a consultant for more than
twenty-eight years to a wide variety of public and private sector
clients on issues ranging from selection, training and development,
and performance assessment to termination. Dr. McPhail is a
licensed psychologist and serves as adjunct faculty for the
University of Houston and Rice University.
The Professional Practice Series is sponsored by The Society for
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc. (SIOP). The series
was launched in 1988 to provide industrial and organizational
psychologists, organizational scientists and practitioners, human
resources professionals, managers, executives, and those interested
in organizational behavior and performance with volumes that are
insightful, current, informative, and relevant to organizational
practice.
"…this text is very useful for practitioners involved in assessment in various fields as well as with adequate examples that assist the reader…" (PscycCrtiques, 10/31/2007)
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