Adverse impact and test validation; a practitioners' guide to valid and defensible employment testing. (CD-ROM included)

Biddle, Dan.

Gower Publishing

2005

122 pages

$69.95

Hardcover

HF5549

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.

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