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8216060 
Technical Report 
"Fairness in Employment Testing: Validity Generalization, Minority Issues, and the General Aptitude Test Battery." 
"Hartigan, JA; Wigdor, AK" 
1989 
368 
"The study is intended to help policy makers decide whether the GATB should be given a primary role in the Employment Service referral system and, in that event, to offer guidance on methods for assembling the pool of job candidates and for reporting test scores. The policy context is described in Chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 3 presents an overview of the U.S. Employment Service and its activities. In Chapter 4 we look at the quality of the GATB, and in Chapter 5 discuss critical weaknesses in the test and in the GATB research program. Theory of validity generalization, are examined in Chapters 6 through 9. Chapter 8 looks at the accumulated body of GATB validity research and presents the committee's judgments about the degree of predictive accuracy that can reasonably be assumed for jobs not studied. Chapter 10 describes the referral system. Chapter 11 discusses the potential effects of the system on the various Employment Service clients, and Chapter 12 analyzed the claims about economic benefits said to accrue from referring job candidates in order to test score. Chapters 13 and 14 present the committee's recommendations to policy makers. In Chapter 13 the committee presents its conclusion about the fair use." 
Occupational tests | Personnel evaluation | Employment qualification | Laws | Legislation | Standardized tests | Educational tests | Validation | Test and evaluation | Aptitude tests | United States | Job applicants | Minority groups