Procedures for evaluating vocational criteria

Abstract

Inasmuch as "efforts designed to evaluate predictive instruments have generally neglected the fact that basic criteria are fallible" the following items are discussed and are suggested as a check list for evaluating criteria: "contamination by illicit use of predictor information; contamination by artificial limitation of production; contamination by differential influence of experience; statistical reliability; correlation with other criteria; predictability; acceptability to the job analyst; acceptability to the sponsor of the study; production of a practical change in the situation by the use of the derived instrument." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)