Optimizing the validity of situational judgment tests: The importance of scoring methods

• Main Authors: WENG, Qingxiong, YANG, Hui, LIEVENS, Filip, MCDANIEL, Michael A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Assessment; Situational judgment test; Extreme response tendency; Scoring method; Criterion-related validity; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5773; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6772/viewcontent/Weng__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In recent years, situational judgment tests (SJTs) have made strong inroads in assessment practices. Despite the importance of scoring for the validity of SJTs, little attention has been paid to different SJT scoring methods. This study investigated the influence of scoring methods on the criterion-...