From Obscurity to Clarity in Psychometric Testing: Selected Works of Professor Peter Saville

ISBN-13: 9781138684577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Peter Saville

Opis

An ideal companion for any student or researcher of HRM, occupational or organizational psychology, or applied psychology in general, Peter Saville’s selected works represent the thinking of one of the most influential psychologists of our time.

Spis treści

Foreword.  Introduction.  Contributors.  PART I: THE ORIGINS OF PSYCHOMETRICS  1. What’s It All about?  2. Intelligence Testing.  PART II: CONSTRUCTING PSYCHOMETRICS  3. The ‘Traditional’ Approach  4. Reflections on the Development of an Inductive Work-Based Questionnaire – the OPQ®  5. Validating Personality Questionnaires  6. Development of a Validity-Centric Work-Based Questionnaire – Saville Consulting Wave®  7. Long versus Short Scales  8. Normative & Forced-Choice Scales.  PART III: PRACTICALITIES OF PSYCHOMETRICS  9. Do Assessments Work?  10. Applications of Assessments  11. The Issue of Cheating  12. Acceptability, Cost-Benefit & Decision Making

O autorze

Professor Peter Saville, BA, MPhil, PhD, HonFBPsS, C.Psychol, CSci, Academic FCIPD, FRSA, FIoD – Founder, SHL & Founder, Saville Consulting; Visiting Professor, Kingston Business School.

Tom Hopton, MA Hons (Oxon), MBPsS, CPsychol.– Principal Consultant, Saville Consulting, A Towers Watson Company; Visiting Fellow, Kingston Business School.