Removing situation descriptions from situational judgment test items: Does the impact differ for video-based versus text-based formats?

• Main Authors: SCHÄPERS, Philipp, LIEVENS, Filip, FREUDENSTEIN, Jan-Philipp, HÜFFMEIER, Joachim, KÖNIG, Cornelius J., KRUMM, Stefan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: situational judgment test; contextualization; video; low-fidelity; Human Resources Management; Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6433; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7432/viewcontent/Schaepersetal_2019_videoSJTswithoutsituations.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent research has shown that many text-based situational judgment test (SJT) items can be solved even when the situational descriptions in the item stems are not presented to test takers. This finding challenges the traditional view of SJTs as low-fidelity simulations that rely on ‘situational’ (c...