Foreword

PURPOSE of the GUIDE

In today’s competitive marketplace and complex legal environment, employers face the challenge of attracting, developing, and retaining the best employees. Michael Eisner, CEO of the Disney Corporation,recognizedtheimpactofpersonneldecisionsonabusiness’bottom-linewhenhe remarked, “My inventory goes home every night.”

This Guide is designed to help managers and human resource (HR) professionals use assessment practices to reach their organizations’ HR goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment testing in easy-to-understand terms so that managers and HR professionals can:

• Evaluate and select assessment tools/procedures that maximize chances for getting the right fit between jobs and employees.
• Administer and score assessment tools that are the most efficient and effective for their particular needs.
• Accurately interpret assessment results.
• Understand the professional and legal standards to be followed when conducting personnel assessment.

FORMAT of the GUIDE

This Guide is structured around a set of assessment principles and their applications. The information is organized so that readers from a variety of backgrounds will find it to be clear and useful.

• Each chapter covers a critical aspect of the assessment process. The issues involved in each aspect are outlined at the beginning of each chapter.
• Thirteen principles of assessment are explained in the Guide. The last chapter (Chapter 9)  serves as a review by summarizing the main points of the thirteen principles.
• To assist readers in finding additional information, links to relevant websites are imbedded in the text throughout the Guide.
• In addition, Appendix A offers a list of resource materials for those interested in more information on a particular topic.
• Appendix B is a glossary for quick clarification of terms and concepts.

This Guide is designed to help managers and human resource (HR) professionals use assessment
practices to reach their organizations’ HR goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment
testing in easy-to-understand terms so that managers and HR professionals can:

 
Table of Contents

 Chapter Page
1 Personnel Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 1-1
2 Understanding the Legal Context of Assessment—Employment
Laws and Regulations with Implications for Assessment . . . . . . . .     2-1
3 Understanding Test Quality—Concepts of Reliability and Validity . . . 3-1
4 Assessment Tools and Their Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
5 How to Select Tests—Standards for Evaluating Tests . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
6 Administering Assessment Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
7 Using, Scoring, and Interpreting Assessment Instruments . . . . . . . .7-1
8 Issues and Concerns with Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
9 A Review—Principles of Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..9-1
Appendix
A Sources of Additional Information on Personnel Assessment . . . . . . A-1
B Glossary of Assessment Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .B-1

CHAPTER1    Personnel Assessment

 This Guide is designed to help managers and human resource (HR) professionals use assessment practices to reach their organizations’ HR goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment testing in easy-to-understand terms so that managers and HR professionals can:

Chapter Highlights
1. Personnel assessment tools: tests and procedures
2. Relationship between the personnel assessment process and tests and procedures
3. What do tests measure?
4. Why do organizations conduct assessment?
5. Some situations in which an organization may benefit from testing
6. Importance of using tests in a purposeful manner
7. Limitations of personnel tests and procedures—fallibility of test scores

Principles of Assessment Discussed

Use assessment tools in a purposeful manner
Use the whole-person approach to assessment.

Download the Testing and Assessment: An Employer's Guide to Good Practicese -  eeoc testassesment.pdf

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