Exam 7: Utility

Over the last year,a personnel manager hired 20 new employees but only 12 of them performed successfully.Here,the base rate of successful performance is

The Brogden-Cronbach-Gleser formula was developed by

When the selection ratio for new personnel at a corporation goes down,

Your text listed many frequently raised questions related to test utility.Which is NOT one of those questions:

Which of the following is included in the calculation of a miss rate?

The textbook authors define a utility analysis as

The Angoff method of setting cutting scores relies heavily on

When the selection ratio goes up,

As used in utility analyses,the term cost refers to

Consider an employment test that is highly accurate (about 98% correct in classifications),but very costly (about $5,000 per test).For which of the following positions would use of the test be most warranted?

From Dr.Erik Viirre's Meet an Assessment Professional essay in Chapter 7,one could reasonably conclude that doing this while driving is not a good idea:

The administrative office for a large newspaper wants to improve accuracy of employees in the copy editing office.A short test of copy editing knowledge is developed and given to 100 existing copy editors.The current copy editors are divided into two groups: (a)those whose performance was rated as acceptable on the most recent performance review,and,(b)those whose performance was rated as unacceptable.Results are presented in graphed form (below). Based on this graph and the information in your text,what score should be chosen as the cut score on the copy editing knowledge test in order to best predict who will be an acceptable or unacceptable copy editor?

In comparing one test to another in terms of utility,test users will evaluate whether

Thinking of the Close-up in Chapter 7,what type of error would have been made if a driver who was hired was actually not qualified for the job?

A Director of Human Resources is setting up a series of tests to use to select applicants for sales positions.Inherent in the tests,and applied in the model of selection,is the Director's assumption that high sales ability can make up for limited product knowledge.The model of selection being applied could BEST be characterized as

Using a cut score of 50 on a predictor test a researcher finds a base rate of 1.00.This means that when a cut score of 50 is used,

Based on experience using Taylor-Russell tables,a test user would MOST likely conclude that

A large corporation scrupulously avoids any possibility of discrimination and adverse impact in its hiring practices.The selection procedure it probably has in place with regard to its entry-level test is one that entails

Of the following list,which place would Taylor-Russell tables be MOST likely to be found?

A problem with using the known group method of setting cut score is that