AN APPLICATION OF TECHNIQUES TO SHORTEN TESTS AND INCREASE VALIDITY.
Two methods of item selection against an external criterion were used to build two short tests for selecting programming and computer maintenance students. The methods were: (a) sequential accretion of items so that at each iteration the item selected is the one leading to the largest increase in th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 90 - 93 |
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American Psychological Association
Feb73
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