TUTORIAL 5 – CHAPTER 6

Name___________________________________

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) ________ is the degree to which a measure is free from random error. 1) _______
A) Reliability
B) Generalizability
C) Validity
D) Utility
E) Correlation

2) The ________ is a measure of the degree to which two sets of numbers are related. 2) _______
A) utility score
B) validity score
C) correlation coefficient
D) generalizability coefficient
E) standard deviation

3) Which of the following is an example of an experience-based situational interview? 3) _______

A) Priya was asked about her reaction if her co-workers indulged in racist behavior.
B) DeShaun was asked to describe how he would convince his boss about his new
marketing strategy.
C) Jane was asked what steps she would take in case of a power failure in the plant.
D) Hiroshi was asked to describe an event where his creativity led to effective problem
solving.
E) Roberto was asked how he would resolve a certain technical fault in his workplace.

4) Andre was asked to share how he would conduct a product launch with a limited budget 4) _______
and only 3 weeks. The interviewer was testing his ________ ability.
A) comprehension
B) quantitative
C) verbal
D) reasoning
E) technical

5) Which of the following statements is true of situational interviews? 5) _______

A) Future-oriented interviews are less valid than experience-based interviews.
B) Situational interviews require the candidate to perform a piece of work or
accomplish a task.
C) Using multiple interviewers in such interviews leads to more subjective errors than
using one interviewer.
D) Future-oriented items reduce some forms of impression management, such as
ingratiation, better than experience-based items.
E) Digitally taped interviews enable employers to better understand how candidates
interact under specific conditions.

6) Federal Auto Corp. (FAC) is looking for experienced ergonomic design engineers and 6) _______
wants to keep training costs to a minimum. The upper management instructs its HR team
to develop a test that would test the design and ergonomic knowledge of the potential
engineering candidates. This test is a ________ valid test.
 A) subjective
B) criterion-related
C) concurrent
D) content
E) predictive

7) When a company provides evidence from previous criterion-related validity studies 7) _______
conducted in other situations to show that a specific test is a valid predictor for a specific
job performance, it is trying to prove the test's
A) reliability.
B) generalizability.
C) variance.
D) utility.
E) legality.

8) Content validation 8) _______

A) is the degree to which a measure is free from internal defects of standardization.
B) assesses the validity of a test by administering it to people already on the job and
then correlating test scores with existing measures of each person's performance.
C) seeks to establish an empirical relationship between test scores taken prior to being
hired and eventual performance on the job.
D) is performed by demonstrating that the questions or problems posed by a test are a
representative sample of the kinds of situations or problems that occur on the job.
E) is an estimate of whether a test appears to measure a certain criterion.

9) Hyung took a test assessing his editing skills as part of the interview process for an 9) _______
executive assistant. Based on his score, the recruiter can assume how successful Hyung
will be in the job, based on ________ validity.
A) predictive
B) concurrent
C) logical
D) subjective
E) content

10) Star Inc., an engineering firm, has come up with a new technical test to assess the 10) ______
knowledge of interviewees. To assess the validity of the test, it requests that its present
employees take the test and match it with their performance in the organization. Which
of the following types of validation has Star Inc. used to test the validity of its new
technical test?
A) Concurrent validation
B) Face validation
C) Content validation
D) Predictive validation
E) Logical validation