Policy Issues in Employment Testing

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Linda C. Wing, Bernard R. Gifford

   Pages 1-12

3. A Critique of Validity Generalization

   • Lawrence R. James, Robert G. Demaree, Stanley A. Mulaik

   Pages 13-76

4. Employment Testing: A Public Sector Viewpoint

   • Joel P. Wiesen, Nancy Abrams, Sally A. McAttee

   Pages 77-130

5. The Validity and Fairness of Alternatives to Cognitive Tests

   • Richard R. Reilly, Michael A. Warech

   Pages 131-224

6. Recent Trends in Assessment: England and Wales

   • Harvey Goldstein, Alison Wolf

   Pages 225-268

7. Employee Selection and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: The Legal Debate Surrounding Selection Criteria, Validation, and Affirmative Action

   • Douglas S. McDowell, Garen E. Dodge

   Pages 269-310

8. Addendum to Chapter 4

   • Linda C. Wing, Bernard R. Gifford

   Pages 311-313

9. Back Matter

   Pages 315-329

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Linda C. Wing and Bernard R. Gifford How should a society committed to the ideas of individual merit, equal opportunity, and the free marketplace allocate scarce educational and employment opportunities? How can that society draw distinctions­ fairly and justifiably-among people competing against each other for the same opportunity? These are among the central questions of a democracy. How a society answers them reveals a great deal about its values and its priorities, and determines a great deal about its future course. In recent decades, we have placed the standardized pencil-and-paper test at the center of these fundamental questions about the nature of opportunity allocation in American life. In more and more areas of our lives-schools, employment, the military-we rely upon the standardized test to rank or classify people, and to assure ourselves that we have done so fairly. The papers gathered here were prepared at the invitation of the National Commission on Testing and Public Policy. (The editors of this volume were involved in the commission from its inception in 1987 until shortly after the publication of its major public report in 1990-Bernard Gifford as Chair and Linda Wing as Associate Director. 1) Each chapter focuses on an aspect of employment testing-a topic that could hardly 1 POLICY ISSUES IN EMPLOYMENT TESTING 2 be more in need of calm deliberation and reasoned discussion than it is today.

• Action
• Affirmative Action
• compliance
• election
• employment

• Harvard University, USA

  Linda C. Wing

• University of California at Berkeley, USA

  Bernard R. Gifford

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