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- Title
What to Make of Content Validity Evidence for Cognitive Tests? Comments on Schmidt ().
- Authors
Kehoe, Jerard F.
- Abstract
This commentary describes practical implications of Schmidt's ( International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 20, 1-13 (2012)) rationale supporting content validity evidence for cognitive tests. These implications include descriptions of the meaning of six key inferences about local, specific cognitive tests, four of which are supported by the traditional methods of content evidence, and two of which are not. These help clarify the important incremental inference from Schmidt's proposed methodology that cognitive tests supported by content evidence will also be predictive of job performance in the local setting. A caution is raised that content evidence does not support a general inference that local, specific cognitive tests will take on all empirical properties of general cognitive measures. An additional job analysis step is recommended to strengthen the linkage between the specific cognitive job skills/behaviors and the more general theory of general cognitive ability.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE testing; JOB evaluation; JOB analysis; EMPLOYMENT tests; OCCUPATIONAL aptitude tests
- Publication
International Journal of Selection & Assessment, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
0965-075X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2389.2012.00574.x