Designing selection systems for medicine: The importance of balancing predictive and political validity in high-stakes selection contexts

• Main Authors: PATTERSON, Fiona, LIEVENS, Filip, KERRIN, Máire, ZIBARRAS, Lara, CARETTE, Bernd
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5641; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6640/viewcontent/Political.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Selection into medical education and training is a high-stakes process. A key unanswered issue is the effectiveness of measuring noncognitive predictors via both low-fidelity and high-fidelity selection approaches in this high-stakes context. We review studies investigating the effectiveness of mult...