A biological-pharmaceutical checker selection program

Abstract

40 checkers in a drug manufacturing company were administered a selection test battery consisting of Thurstone's Mental Alertness, Test BPC-1 (attention), Test BPC-2 (attention and mental set), Minnesota Clerical, MacQuarrie Mechanical Ability, and Pennsylvania Bi-Manual Worksample. A combination of 4 tests and subtests gave a maximized shrunken prediction of the criterion (supervisor's ratings) of R = 0.48. The zero-order correlation between transmuted test battery and criterion scores was 0.57. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)