Adverse Impact and Test Validation
A Practitioner's Guide to Valid and Defensible Employment Testing, 2nd Edition
Author: Dan Biddle, Ph.D.
ISBN: 0 566 08778 2
***NOTE: The 3rd Edition of Dan Biddle's Adverse Impact and Test Validation book is now available. Go to the Adverse Impact and Test Validation, 3rd Edition, web page for detailed information.
Dan Biddle's Adverse Impact and Test Validation provides you with guidelines and analysis steps that allow you to identify which of your selection procedures have adverse impact and how to complete a defensible validation study using court-endorsed methodologies.
This book includes evaluation copies of BCG's new Test Validation & Analysis Program (TVAP™) and Adverse Impact Toolkit™. TVAP is designed to assist employers with complex testing analyses using a straight-forward Microsoft® Excel®-based program. The Toolkit provides the latest variety of court-supported methodologies for calculating adverse impact (also using Excel).
Chapter Outline
Chapter 1: Adverse Impact
- Types of adverse impact analyses
- The concept of statistical significance
- Selection rate comparison for a single event
- Selection rate comparisons for multiple events
- Availability comparison for a single event
- Availability comparisons for multiple events
Chapter 2: Selection Procedure Development and Validation
- Validation defined
- Overview of the mechanics of content and criterion-related validity
- Benefits of the validation process
- Professional standards for validation
- Uniform Guidelines requirements for validation
- Blending the professional and government validation standards into practice
- Steps for completing a content validation study
- Eight steps for completing a job analysis
- Developing a selection plan
- Content validation requirements for “work sample” and “KSAPC” types of selection procedures
- Criterion-related validity
Chapter 3: Developing, Validating, and Analyzing Written Tests
- Step 1: Determine the KSAPCs to be measured by the test
- Step 2: Develop a test plan for measuring the selected KSAPCs
- Step 3: Develop the test content
- Step 4: Validate the test
- Step 5: Score and analyze the test
Chapter 4: Developing, Validating, and Analyzing Structured Interviews
- Methods for improving the interview process
- Types of questions to include in structured interviews
- Steps for developing situational questions
- Administering and scoring an interview
Chapter 5: Developing, Validating, and Analyzing Training, Education & Experience (TEE) Requirements
- Uniform Guidelines criteria regarding TEE requirements
- Professional standards regarding TEE requirements
- Using TEE requirements in open selection/promotional processes
- Using TEE requirements in closed selection/promotional processes
Chapter 6: Using Selection Procedures: Cutoff Scores, Banding, Ranking, and Weighting
- Developing valid cutoff scores
- Banding
- Ranking
- Weighting selection procedures into combined scores
Chapter 7: Using Multiple Repgression Analysis to Examine Compensation Practices by Jim Higgins, Ed.D.
- How does Multiple Regression (MR) Analysis work?
- Steps for conducting Multiple Regression (MR) Analysis
Chapter 8: Internet Applicant Regulations: Recordkeeping, Adverse Impact, and Basic Qualifications by Patrick Nooren, Ph.D.
Appendix: Seven Steps for Developing a Content Valid Job Knowledge Written Test by Stacy L. Pilchard
About the Author
Dan A. Biddle, Ph.D. is the CEO of Biddle Consulting Group, Inc., (BCG) a consulting firm specializing in the areas of test development/validation, Equal Employment Opportunity compliance, and Human Resource software development. Dr. Biddle is also the CEO of affiliate company, Fire & Police Selection, Inc., a firm dedicated to providing fair and defensible testing solutions to the fire services industry. BCG has consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies and hundreds of public sector agencies in matters pertaining to these areas, and maintains over 1,000 software or service clients worldwide. BCG also provides expert witness/consulting services in state and federal litigation matters, or in response to government audits.
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