Requirements of Measures: Practicability, Sensitivity and Reliability

Mike Smith and Ivan T. Robertson
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Mike Smith: University of Manchester
Ivan T. Robertson: University of Manchester

Chapter 6 in The Theory and Practice of Systematic Personnel Selection, 1993, pp 93-116 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Once the short-listed candidates have been identified, the next stage is to subject them to a procedure to measure the personal qualities listed in the personnel specification. There are many different measures from which to choose. Eventually a decision between the different methods will need to be made. The most logical way is to set out, in advance, the requirements which good selection methods should meet. In practice, there are four main requirements. In order of pre-eminence they are practicability, sensitivity, reliability and validity. This chapter deals with the first three; the next chapter deals with validity.

Keywords: Item Response Theory; Reliability Coefficient; Latent Trait; True Score; Percentile Score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22754-9_6

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