Chapter 16. Assessment, Careers, and Business
A wide variety of assessment tools and procedures used to accomplish various ends in business and other organizational contexts.
Measures of Interest
Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) by Edward Strong
-Intends to measure human interests.
-A 420-item SVIB for men in 1928 and revised in1938.
-A 410-item SVIB for women in 1935 and revised in1946
Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII): A merged form was developed by David Campbell in 1974.
Strong Interest Inventory (SII): SCII was revised in 1985 and 1994.
-Test Construction Procedure
(a) Select hundreds of items that might distinguish the interests of a person by that person’s occupation.
(b) Administer the items to several hundred people in the occupation or profession.
(c) Keep items people in the profession show interest and discard items the people in the profession do not show interest.
(d) Repeat this procedure in other people in other professions.
(e) Your interests will match with those of people who are actually employed in the profession and enjoying the profession.
-Test Items
(a) Yes or No response to self-descriptive statements (i.e., Do you win friends easily?)
(b) Standardization: People from 50 different jobs. They like their job and were employed in the job for at least for 3 years.
Minnesota Vocational Interest Inventory
An empirically keys instrument designed to compare the respondents’ interest patterns with those of persons employed in a variety of non-professional occupations (i.e., painters, truck drivers, stock clerks).
Note: Correlation coefficients between interest and aptitude range from 0.4 to 0.72.
Note: People who interested in things that they do well or they develop abilities in things that interest them.
Measures of Ability and Aptitude (Focus on more informal learning)
Wonderlic Personnel Test
-A questionnaire (12-minute long)
-Measures mental ability in a general sense, assessing spatial skill, abstract thought, and mathematical skills.
Bennet Mechanical Comprehension Test
-A paper-pencil test
-Assesses test-taker’s ability to understand the relationship between physical forces and various tools (i.e., gears) and common objects (i.e., carts, steps)
Hand-Tool Dexterity Test
-Actually taking apart, reassemble, manipulate materials, usually in a prescribed sequence and within some prescribed time.
O’Connor Tweezer Dexterity Test
-Required to insert brass pins into a metal plate using a pair of tweezers.
-Assesses perceptual-motor abilities, hand and eye coordination, and finger dexterity
-Good measure for selecting employees who are expected to secure tiny transistors into the computer mother board.