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HR-XML Consortium's Mission Receives
The Support of the World's Largest Human Resources Association
"Essentially, the universal standards will take what is now chaos, and make it simple. The standards will create one format to help HR professionals perform their jobs better, reduce costs and make it easier to maintain data for future upgrades or system changes."
~ Sue Meisinger, SHRM President and CEO
"The HR-XML Consortium's Assessments Standard makes it even easier for employers to leverage the assessment tests, tools, and expertise offered by assessment service providers. The standard significantly reduces implementation time frames and costs for employers and vendors implementing assessments within talent management solutions."
~ Doug Walner, President of PSI
HR-XML is an independent, non-profit consortium dedicated to enabling e-commerce and inter-company exchange of human resources data worldwide. The work of the Consortium centers on the development and promotion of standardized XML vocabularies for HR. HR-XML's current efforts are focused on standards for staffing and recruiting, compensation and benefits, training and work force management. HR-XML is represented by its membership in 22 countries.
ARTICLES FOR REVIEW:
Computerized Assessment in Selection: Critical Issues with Emerging Applications (April 2002)
Practitioner forum conducted at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Toronto, Ontario
While the use of technology-based psychological assessment has dramatically increased in recent years, the factors associated with effective implementation are often not well understood. This session dealt with psychometric and implementation issues associated with transition to technology and new assessment applications.
When Computerized Assessments Work Well: Application Issues Wade M. Gibson, Psychological Services, Inc.
Computerizing Cognitive Ability Assessments: Technical Issues in Development and Validation John A. Weiner, Psychological Services, Inc.
Web-Based Assessment: Issues and Applications in Personnel Assessment John A. Weiner, Psychological Services, Inc. View PDF
Practical Effects of Faking On Job Applicant Attitude Test Scores John A. Weiner and Wade M. Gibson, Psychological Services, Inc.
The impact of positive response distortion (PRD) upon attitude test scores is examined in job applicant settings. Using data from three empirical studies, several issues are examined, including job applicant and incumbent base rates, impact on validity, and effects on hiring decisions under single-test and compensatory scoring models.
Licensing and Certification Test Construction: A Balancing Act Reprinted from CLEAR Exam Review, Vol. VII, Number 1, Winter 1996, pages 23 - 27 by permission. ISSN 1076-8025. Copyright © 1996, Council on Licensure, Enforcement, and Regulation
Licensing and certification tests are criterion-referenced measures and, as such, are constructed to meet explicit content specifications. At the same time, such "high stakes" tests must be built to meet psychometric standards for measurement quality (e.g., reliability, equivalence of alternate forms). For computerized testing programs, balancing content and psychometric requirements can be a daunting challenge. There are many ways to approach online test forms assembly; this paper describes an approach we developed in an effort to balance the content and psychometric requirements inherent in licensing programs. A test construction procedure is outlined, which addresses both content and psychometric concerns through stratified-random content sampling and test form pre-calibration based on Classical Test Theory (CTT). The procedure has been successfully applied as part of a computerized testing system specifically designed for licensing and certification exams.
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