The Personnel Test: a restandardized abridgment of the Otis S-A test for business and industrial use

Abstract

A revision of the Otis intelligence test, called the Personnel Test, is described. The test is available in three forms and requires only 12 minutes to administer. It may, however, be given with unlimited time, and norms for both speed and power conditions are available. Only those items were included which satisfied the following criteria of validity: differentiation between successful and unsuccessful employees, differentiation between good and poor students, and adequate correlation with total score. Split-half reliabilities for the various forms were found to range from .85 to .94, and the correlations between parallel forms ranged from .83 to .92. The validity of the test is indicated by its high correlation with other intelligence tests and its ability to differentiate successful from unsuccessful employees. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)