What is the Personality Test? The staple of modern Scientology recruitment is the Personality Test‚ or to give it its more formal name‚ the Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA). It also appears sometimes to be (or to have been) referred to as the American Personality Analysis or APA. The OCA has been used as a recruiting tool by Scientology since 1953. What Is Scientology? (1992 edition) says of the test: "This test accurately measures the preclear’s estimation of ten different personality traits
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Ensuring the Validity of Pre-Employment Testing Elizabeth Hyatt OMM618 Steven Pierce March 24‚ 2014 Ensuring the Validity of Pre-Employment Testing Hiring and retaining employees has been a huge issue since the beginning of its expansion by franchising. McOpCo has attempted to reduce its turnover by implementing pre-employment testing in order to hire a better quality employee. Pre-employment testing are used to screen potential employees by testing various factors
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Psychological Assessment: Test Development and Test Adaption in Psychometrics. Index Developing a Psychological Assessment Measure Phases and steps Planning Item writing Assembling and pre-testing the experimental version of the measure Item analysis phase Revising and standardizing the final version of the measure Technical evaluation and norm establishing Publishing and ongoing refinement Steps in Adapting Measures for Cross-cultural Application Equivalence in cross-cultural
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Spearman vs. Gardner Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are seven different forms of intelligence. They are Linguistic intelligence which involves sensitivity to spoken and written language‚ the ability to learn languages‚ and the capacity to use language to accomplish certain goals. Logical-mathematical intelligence consists of the capacity to analyze problems logically‚ carry out mathematical operations‚ and investigate issues scientifically. In Howard Gardner’s
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Reliability and Validity Assessment. Sage Publications‚ Beverly Hills‚ California. Gay‚ L.‚ 1987. Eductional research: competencies for analysis and application. Merrill Pub. Co.‚ Columbus. Guilford‚ J.‚ 1954. Psychometric Methods. McGraw-Hill‚ New York. Nunnally‚ J.‚ 1978. Psychometric Theory. McGraw-Hill‚ New York. Winer‚ B.‚ Brown‚ D.‚ and Michels‚ K.‚ 1991. Statistical Principles in Experimental Design‚ Third Edition. McGraw-Hill‚ New York.
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Case 1 – Selection: Staffing Dutch corps commando troops 1. There are five main competencies needed for the staffing of the Dutch Corps Commando Troops. The competencies‚ as mentioned in the article given‚ include (1) physical abilities‚ (2) war-fighting skills (such as skills in explosive ordnance disposal‚ close quarters battle‚ aerial infiltration‚ and survival‚ evasion‚ resistance and escape)‚ (3) mental ability (cognitive capacity‚ for example)‚ (4) personality traits or characteristics (such
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ADVANCED EXPOSITORY AND RESEARCH WRITING “SELF DISCIPLINE IN HIGH SCHOOL INFLUENCES STUDENTS ACADEMIC ABILITIES” AN ACADEMIC RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FUFILMENT OF THE COURSE WRITING 1002 INTRODUCTION One of the most keenly debated issues in American societies is whether the academic abilities of high school students are influenced by their level of intelligence quotients or by other factors such as self discipline. Both social and
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considered one of the most heavily researched topics in industrial–organizational psychology with several thousand published studies‚ there is only one relatively recent overview of job satisfaction instruments in which the quality and adequacy of their psychometric characteristics has been assessed. This study performed by a group of Dutch Occupational Medical researchers (Saane et al.‚ 2003)‚ offers a systematic review of 29 different instruments used to measure job satisfaction on their internal consistency
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managers and executives. Next‚ a different managerial sample rated the extent to which each of the 102 items was representative of champion behavior‚ and 29 were deemed to represent the core of the domain of championship. Finally‚ to evaluate the psychometric properties of the champion behavior measure‚ 47 product innovations in 13 firms were studied. Forty-seven nominated champions completed personality measures‚ 47 top division managers rated project performance‚ and 216 innovation team members
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evaluations might you use to determine the characteristics of your employees? Does the type of tool used make a difference? Why? The type of assessment and evaluation that you might use to determine the characteristics of your employees is psychometric testing: Psychometric tests include personality profiles‚ reasoning tests‚ motivation questionnaires‚ and ability assessments. Interest tests measure how people differ in their motivation‚ values‚ and opinions in relation to their interests. Personality tests
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