Alternative Validation Strategies: Developing New and Leveraging Existing Validity Evidence(J-B SIOP Professional Practice Series)

Alternative Validation Strategies is a groundbreaking compendium of the most current research and practical guidelines for time- and cost-saving alternatives to the traditional test validation strategies associated with selection processes. The “state of the science” strategies outlined in this valuable resource will help employers to evaluate the inferences drawn from their selection procedures while offering practices that meet stringent legal and regulatory requirements.

Table of Contents:
Foreword xiii Allan H. Church and Janine Waclawski Preface xv S. Morton McPhail The Authors xxiii 1 Development of Validation Evidence 1 S. Morton McPhail Part 1: Applying Existing Validity Evidence 2 Transportation of Validation Results 29 Wade M. Gibson and Julie A. Caplinger 3 Job Component Validity: Background, Current Research, and Applications 82 Calvin C. Hoffman, Boris Rashkovsky, and Erika D’Egidio 4 Synthetic Validity: A Technique of Use (Finally) 122 Jeff W. Johnson 5 Validity Generalization as a Test Validation Approach 159 Michael A. McDaniel 6 Generalizing Personality-Based Validity Evidence 181 Joyce Hogan, Scott Davies, and Robert Hogan Part 2: Developing New Evidence for Validity 7 Consortium Studies 233 Nancy T. Tippins and William H. Macey 8 Application of Content Validation Methods to Broader Constructs 252 Damian J. Stelly and Harold W. Goldstein 9 Practical Construct Validation for Personnel Selection 317 Timothy E. Landon and Richard D. Arvey Part 3: Implementation 10 Implementation Based on Alternate Validation Procedures: Ranking, Cut Scores, Banding, and Compensatory Models 349 Lorin Mueller, Dwayne Norris, and Scott Oppler Part 4: Where Do We Go from Here? 11 The Validation of Personnel Decisions in the Twenty-First Century: Back to the Future 409 Frank J. Landy Name Index 427 Subject Index 435

About the Author :
S. Morton McPhail is a senior vice president and managing principal with Valtera Corporation (formerly Jeanneret & Associates, Inc.). He has served as a consultant for more than twenty-eight years to a wide variety of public and private sector clients on issues ranging from selection, training and development, and performance assessment to termination. Dr. McPhail is a licensed psychologist and serves as adjunct faculty for the University of Houston and Rice University. The Professional Practice Series is sponsored by The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc. (SIOP). The series was launched in 1988 to provide industrial and organizational psychologists, organizational scientists and practitioners, human resources professionals, managers, executives, and those interested in organizational behavior and performance with volumes that are insightful, current, informative, and relevant to organizational practice.

Review :
"…this text is very useful for practitioners involved in assessment in various fields as well as with adequate examples that assist the reader…" (PscycCrtiques, 10/31/2007)