Comparative validities in clerical testing

Abstract

The Wonderlic Personnel Test, the SRA Clerical Battery, and the LOMA 2A (an omnibus 6-part test) were administered to 24 low level clerical employees. Test scores were correlated with a supervisor's rating criterion. It was found that "prediction of success in low-level routine clerical work more efficiently accomplished by tests based on what appears to be speed of perception than by tests involving primarily reasoning problems… the most efficient tests were also the briefest: [Hay] Number Perception, [Hay] Name Finding and SRA Checking." The validities for these three tests were .64, .60, and .55 respectively. Cutting scores on the two Hay tests correctly classified 21 of the 24 employees. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)