Adverse Impact And Test Validation: A Practitioner's Guide To Valid And Defensible Employment Testing - Hardcover

Biddle, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0566086549 ISBN 13: 9780566086540

Publisher: Gower Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

Writing for human resource professionals in the United States, Biddle (president and CEO, Biddle Consulting Group, an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action consulting firm) describes the tools and procedures for calculating adverse impact in the context of equal employment opportunity liability. He offers chapters describing the concept of adverse impact; selection procedure development and validation; developing, validating, and analyzing written tests, structured interviews, and TEE (training, education, and experience) requirements; and using selection procedures such as cutoff scores, banding, ranking, and weighting. The CD-ROM contains trial versions of software tools for calculating adverse impact. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

Dan A. Biddle, Ph.D. is president and CEO of Biddle Consulting Group, Inc., an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action consulting firm. Since 1974, BCG has provided expert witness and/or consulting services in over 200 state, federal, and circuit level court cases involving EEO and test validation matters. BCG has over 1000 clients worldwide.

Review

Reviews from the first edition: 'Before the resurgence of the civil rights movement in the middle of the twentieth century, many employers had relegated the development of employee selection procedures to persons of the technician level. This was reinforced by some academics employment selection "cookbooks". These activities led to the use of many improper selection procedures that not only hurt the employment prospects of many groups, but also served no useful purpose for the employer. As new civil rights acts became effective and guidelines regarding employee selection were promulgated, it was quickly realized by both employers and psychologists-both in industry and academia-that the technical issues were far beyond the technician level. In fact even today, some of the issues are so complicated that only a small minority of psychologists can rightly claim to really understand them. Dr Biddle's book is an excellent effort to bridge the gap between the technical and the practical. The procedures presented are informed by the most relevant technical information and by present legal requirements. This book is best suited for non-technicians who have at least a general foundation of relevant technical knowledge.' Mary L. Tenopyr, AT&T, and Past President of SIOP (Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology)

Edition details

• Publisher: Gower Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0566086549
• ISBN 13: 9780566086540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 122