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McCormick, Ernest J.; And Others – 1977
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis of individual jobs in terms of each of 187 job elements, was used to establish the job component validity of certain commercially-available vocational aptitude tests. Prior to the general analyses reported here, a statistical analysis…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cluster Analysis, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests
Download full textDeNisi, Angelo S.; And Others – 1976
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis for individual jobs in terms of 187 job elements, has been found in previous studies to be useful as the basis for predicting the mean test scores of incumbents on a sample of jobs in terms of the nine tests of the General Aptitude…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests, Personnel Selection
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1974
Research which resulted in the development of the Specific Aptitude Test Battery for use in selecting inexperienced or untrained individuals for training as ward clerks is described. Occupational norms in terms of minimum qualifying scores for the aptitude measures which predict job performance were established. The General Aptitude Test Battery…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Employment Qualifications, Hospital Personnel, Job Analysis
Mecham, Robert C. – 1991
Occupational norms exist for some tests, and differences in the distributions of test scores by occupation are evident. Sampling error (SE), situationally specific factors (SSFs), and differences in job content (DIJCs) were explored as possible reasons for the observed differences. SE was explored by analyzing 742 validity studies performed by the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Utilization, Job Analysis
Bemis, Stephen E.; And Others – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1973
How a marriage was arranged between the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and the General Aptitude Test Battery to create an occupational family structure of use in vocational counseling. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Job Analysis, Occupational Aspiration
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Div. of Counseling and Test Development. – 1983
This report cumulates the results of 515 validation studies carried out over a 45-year period by the United States Employment Service, and relates these findings to five systems of job classification and job analysis. Correction for sampling error shows that general cognitive, perceptual, and psychomotor ability are valid predictors of job…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Cognitive Ability, Federal Programs
Shaw, James B.; McCormick, Ernest J. – 1976
The study was directed towards the further exploration of the use of attribute ratings as the basis for establishing the job component validity of tests, in particular by using different methods of combining "attribute-based" data with "job analysis" data to form estimates of the aptitude requirements of jobs. The primary focus…
Descriptors: Ability, Cognitive Tests, Factor Analysis, Job Analysis
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
