Cross-Ethnic Cross Validation of Aptitude Batteries.

Autor/inn/en	Pike, Lewis W.; Mahoney, Margaret H.
Titel	Cross-Ethnic Cross Validation of Aptitude Batteries.
Quelle	(1969), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Aptitude Tests; Blacks; Correlation; Culture Fair Tests; Ethnic Groups; Minority Groups; Performance Criteria; Predictive Measurement; Test Validity; Testing; Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aptitude test; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Black person; Schwarzer; Korrelation; Ethnie; Ethnische Minderheit; Testvalidität; Testdurchführung; Testen; White; Weißer
Abstract	How well an aptitude test battery predicts rated job performance for Negroes and whites, and how well a battery selected for one group predicts performance for the other, is examined. Supervisory ratings were used as the criterion of job performance. Tests selected to predict performance in the job of Medical Laboratory technicians were validated separately by ethnic groups. Multiple correlation coefficients between the test battery and each of nine rating scales were computed and the resulting test batteries were cross validated, across ethnic group. Validity coefficents were generally higher for Negroes than for whites, and there were consistently higher validities for Negroes on paper and pencil tests assumed to be "culture bound" but higher validities for whites on tests assumed to be "culture free." On all nine rating scales, multiple correlations were greater for the Negro sample than for the white. The cross ethnic, cross validation indicated that a battery selected for a white sample would be generally valid for Negroes but the converse was less true. It was concluded that in some instances paper and pencil tests are as valid for Negroes as for whites even when weighted on a predominately white population. (Author/RM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01