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Updating the Trainability Tests Literature on Black-White Subgroup Differences and Reconsidering Criterion-Related Validity
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Roth, Philip L.; Buster, Maury A.; Bobko, Philip – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
A number of applied psychologists have suggested that trainability test Black-White ethnic group differences are low or relatively low (e.g., Siegel & Bergman, 1975), though data are scarce. Likewise, there are relatively few estimates of criterion-related validity for trainability tests predicting job performance (cf. Robertson & Downs,…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Work Sample Tests, African Americans, Whites