Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University

The purpose of this experiment is to examine one previously untested premise of the validity generalization model proposed by Schmidt and Hunter on test validity. The sample consisted of 307 subjects who were tested on measures constructed to be examples of contaminated, deficient, relevant and ultimate criteria. These criteria were correlated to a predictor, student GPA. The predictor-criteria relationship was observed over various sample sizes ranging from n = 25 to n = 300. The validity coefficients were hypothesized to change over increasing sample sizes in the same pattern as the other artifacts from Schmidt and Hunter's validity generalization model. Student GPA was obtained from a biographical data sheet and this raw score was correlated through the use of Pearson Product-Moment correlations to raw scores on each of four quizzes, representing the four criteria. These correlations were then analyzed to determine if they follow four hypothesized patterns supporting the patterns of Schmidt and Hunter's controllable artifacts. The results of the study indicated that the four hypotheses of various patterns resulting among the four criteria generally supported Schmidt and Hunter's validity generalization model. Further investigation to determine more completely the extent of the effects of the uncontrollable artifacts is suggested as this exploratory study represents the first laboratory investigation of the effect of sample size on criterion contamination and criterion deficiency in the validity generalization model.

M.Com. (Industrial Psychology) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 114-119). Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Adelaide, 1992. / General bibliography: leaves 230-247. Bibliography of test material: leaves 248-254.

"It is the purpose of this present study to investigate further the aptitude areas into which Home Economics courses may be classified, and to determine whether a relationship exists between these areas and the areas of the Differential Aptitude Test."--1.

This study analyzes the converted scores made on Aptitudes "G" (intelligence) and "V" (verbal" and the raw scores made on Part "H" (three-dimensional space) and Part "I" of the General Aptitude Test Battery by students enrolled in beginning industrial arts courses, advanced industrial arts courses, and beginning English at North Texas State College, Denton, Texas, and the academic grades made by theses same students in order to determine what relationship exists between both the converted and raw scores made on the foregoing parts of the GATB and academic grades.

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Thesis (M.A. (Psychology)) -- University of the North, 1995 / Refer to the document

Thèse--Neuchâtel. / Bibliography: p. 105-108.