Beyond Multiple Choice : Evaluating Alternatives to Traditional Testing for Selection

by Hakel, Milton D.

• ISBN13: 9780805820539
• ISBN10: 0805820531
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume provides in-depth coverage of a key piece of today's human resource selection technology--the viability of alternatives to paper and pencil multiple-choice selection tests. Each chapter of this edited volume presents an intensive examination of a key "alternative to multiple-choice testing." The content of the book's chapters ranges from reviews of issues associated with, and evidence available for, the use of particular selection text alternatives (computerized testing, performance assessments) to empirical investigation of other alternatives (biodata, creative skills); from examination of standards for choosing among selection tests to practitioners' and test takers' perspectives. This book is important for researchers and practitioners in the human resource selection field who have wanted a resource that provides a comprehensive examination of multiple-choice selection testing and its alternatives.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 Into the Great Beyond	1	(6)
Milton D. Hakel
2 Jumping the Gun at the Starting Gate: When Fads Become Trends and Trends Become Traditions	7	(10)
Robert M. Guion
3 Measure Me Not: The Test Taker's New Bill of Rights	17	(6)
Mary L. Tenopyr
4 Innovations in Computer-Based Ability Testing: Promise, Problems, and Perils	23	(18)
James R. McBride
5 Testing Medium, Validity, and Test Performance	41	(18)
James L. Outlz
6 Alternative Modes of Assessment, Uniform Standards of Validity	59	(16)
Samuel J. Messick
7 A Construct Approach to Skill Assessment: Procedures for Assessing Complex Cognitive Skills	75	(38)
Michael D. Mumford
Wayne A. Baughman
Elizabeth P. Supinski
Lance E. Anderson
8 Performance Assessment in Education and Professional Certification: Lessons for Personnel Selection?	113	(18)
Paul R. Sackett
9 Personality at Work: Issues and Evidence	131	(36)
Leatta Hough
10 Biodata and Differential Prediction: Some Reservations	167	(16)
Neal Schmitt
Elaine D. Pulakos
11 Life Is Not Multiple Choice: Reactions to the Alternatives	183	(20)
Ann Marie Ryan
Gary J. Greguras
12 A Practitioner's Response and Call for Help	203	(6)
David J. Kleinke
13 Been There, Done That!	209	(4)
Milton D. Hakel
Author Index	213	(6)
Subject Index	219