From Obscurity to Clarity in Psychometric Testing

Selected works of Professor Peter Saville

Peter Saville (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-68457-7 (ISBN)

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The field of psychometrics has a long and varied tradition across the social sciences. A range of academics have sought to understand human consciousness more fully by statistical testing our abilities, personalities, attitudes and beliefs. But perhaps the area where psychometric techniques have had most impact on contemporary society is in employee recruitment, where a range of psychometric tests have become common-place.

Professor Peter Saville is one of the pioneers of adapting psychometric testing to the field of occupational psychology and human resource management. In a career of nearly 40 years, his work has been adopted by hundreds of public and private organizations, assessing the suitability of prospective candidates through a range of questionnaires and tests. In this anthology of his work, including both keynote conference address and journal papers, Saville provides a masterly overview of the field of psychometrics, and the key issues and questions that it raises.

An ideal companion for any student or researcher of HRM, occupational or organizational psychology, or applied psychology in general, Peter Saville’s selected works represent the thinking of one of the most influential psychologists of our time.

Professor Peter Saville, BA, MPhil, PhD, HonFBPsS, C.Psychol, CSci, Academic FCIPD, FRSA, FIoD – Founder, SHL & Founder, Saville Consulting; Visiting Professor, Kingston Business School. Tom Hopton, MA Hons (Oxon), MBPsS, CPsychol.– Principal Consultant, Saville Consulting, A Towers Watson Company; Visiting Fellow, Kingston Business School.

Foreword. Introduction. Contributors. PART I: THE ORIGINS OF PSYCHOMETRICS 1. What’s It All about? 2. Intelligence Testing. PART II: CONSTRUCTING PSYCHOMETRICS 3. The ‘Traditional’ Approach 4. Reflections on the Development of an Inductive Work-Based Questionnaire – the OPQ® 5. Validating Personality Questionnaires 6. Development of a Validity-Centric Work-Based Questionnaire – Saville Consulting Wave® 7. Long versus Short Scales 8. Normative & Forced-Choice Scales. PART III: PRACTICALITIES OF PSYCHOMETRICS 9. Do Assessments Work? 10. Applications of Assessments 11. The Issue of Cheating 12. Acceptability, Cost-Benefit & Decision Making

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2019
Mitarbeit	Stellvertretende Herausgeber: Hopton Tom
Zusatzinfo	41 Tables, black and white; 29 Line drawings, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
ISBN-10	1-138-68457-0 / 1138684570
ISBN-13	978-1-138-68457-7 / 9781138684577
Zustand	Neuware