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

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)

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.