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Concurrent Session
Contemporary Best Practices in Employment Testing: Are Your Tests Defensible?
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Monday 03/11/2013 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM   Add to calendar
1.50 HR Credit | Competencies: Business Acumen | Intended Audience: Senior-Level
Workplace Application:
Contemporary Best Practices in Employment Testing: Are Your Tests Defensible? 

 

Workplace Application:  Validation research is critical to understanding the legal defensibility of selection procedures.

A controversial issue in employment law is the use of tests and other selection procedures to make hiring, promotion and other organizational decisions. Tests that are professionally developed and supported by research, and that can have a substantial impact on organizational performance, are usually legally defensible. Tests that are not professionally developed or supported by research, and that have an adverse impact on members of a protected group, can be mechanisms for systemic discrimination. In this presentation, industrial-organizational psychologists review:

  • Contemporary best practices for selecting, using and validating various selection procedures, including employment tests.
  • The current state of the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978).
  • How to set cut scores.
  • Standards for considering reasonable alternatives.
  • Common enforcement agency criticisms of validation research.
Eric Dunleavy, Ph.D. Photo
Presenter:
Eric Dunleavy, Ph.D., Vice President, Employment and Litigation Services,
DCI Consulting Group