Validity Generalization : A Critical Review

by Murphy, Kevin R.; Mount, Michael; Newman, Daniel; Jelley, R. Blake

• ISBN13: 9780805841145
• ISBN10: 0805841148
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume presents the first wide-ranging critical review of validity generalization (VG)--a method that has dominated the field since the publication of Schmidt and Hunter's (1977) paper "Development of a General Solution to the Problem of Validity Generalization." This paper and the work that followed had a profound impact on the science and practice of applied psychology. The research suggests that fundamental relationships among tests and criteria, and the constructs they represent are simpler and more regular than they appear. Looking at the history of the VG model and its impact on personnel psychology, top scholars and leading researchers of the field review the accomplishments of the model, as well as the continuing controversies. Several chapters significantly extend the maximum likelihood estimation with existing models for meta analysis and VG. Reviewing 25 years of progress in the field, this volume shows how the model can be extended and applied to new problems and domains. This book will be important to researchers and graduate students in the areas of industrial organizational psychology and statistics.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	xi
Jeanette N. Cleveland
Edwin A. Fleishman
Preface	xiii
The Logic of Validity Generalization	1	(30)
Kevin R. Murphy
History, Development, Evolution, and Impact of Validity Generalization and Meta-Analysis Methods, 1975-2001	31	(36)
Frank Schmidt
John Hunter
Meta-Analysis and Validity Generalization as Research Tools: Issues of Sample Bias and Degrees of Mis-Specification	67	(24)
Philip Bobko
Philip L. Roth
The Status of Validity Generalization Research: Key Issues in Drawing Inferences From Cumulative Research Findings	91	(24)
Paul R. Sackett
Progress Is Our Most Important Product: Contributions of Validity Generalization and Meta-Analysis to the Development and Communication of Knowledge in I/O Psychology	115	(40)
Hannah R. Rothstein
Validity Generalization: Then and Now	155	(42)
Frank J. Landy
Impact of Meta-Analysis Methods on Understanding Personality--Performance Relations	197	(26)
Murray R. Barrick
Michael K. Mount
The Challenge of Aggregating Studies of Personality	223	(40)
Mitchell G. Rothstein
R. Blake Jelley
Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Validity Generalization	263	(24)
Nambury S. Raju
Fritz Drasgow
Methodological and Conceptual Challenges in Conducting and Interpreting Meta-Analyses	287	(24)
Michael J. Burke
Ronald S. Landis
Meta-Analysis and the Art of the Average	311	(28)
Frederick L. Oswald
Rodney A. McCloy
Validity Generalization From a Bayesian Perspective	339	(26)
Michael T. Brannick
Steven M. Hall
A Generalizability Theory Perspective on Measurement Error Corrections in Validity Generalization	365	(38)
Richard P. DeShon
The Past, Present, and Future of Validity Generalization	403	(22)
Kevin R. Murphy
Daniel A. Newman
Author Index	425	(14)
Subjects Index	439