Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are assessments which place the respondent in a situation where they are asked to select, rate, or respond with the best given answer for a given scenario. One current issue for the use of SJTs today is finding ways to reduce levels of ethnic subgroup differences in scores which can lead to adverse impact. The purpose of the current study is to examine the components of SJTs having potential in reducing ethnic subgroup differences in scores. While there is ample research suggesting there are differences in ethnic subgroup scores that can be found using different formats of SJTs (e.g., written, audio, and multimedia), more research is still needed. There is also ubiquitous support suggesting cognitive loading significantly leads to greater ethnic subgroup differences in SJT scores, but more research should be conducted to compare differences between SJTs analyzing either cognitive ability or interpersonal ability (e.g., teamwork facilitation), while additionally examining differences in scores between SJT formats. The first hypothesis involves examining score differences between two types of SJTs (one written and read normally, and one with an audio enhancement). The second hypothesis involves examining subgroup differences between SJTs assessing interpersonal ability and cognitive ability. The participants will consist of undergraduate psychology students and individuals from the Amazon Mechanical Turk (M-Turk). The study is a between-subjects design and cross-sectional, with participants placed randomly into one of two groups for the two different formats of SJTs. The measures will include three SJTs. One will assess interpersonal ability, and the other two will be used to assess cognitive ability. These three SJTs will be administered to every participant. The full questionnaire containing the three SJTs will be administered through Qualtrics and the SONA pool. The audio enhanced SJTs will be created using an external software program, and each audio-visual item will be uploaded or linked to Qualtrics for each item. Data will be analyzed using a t-test and analysis of variance.
Date
October 2020
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
posters
Language
English
Rights
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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An Examination of Ethnic Subgroup Score Differences Between Different Types of Situational Judgement Tests
Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are assessments which place the respondent in a situation where they are asked to select, rate, or respond with the best given answer for a given scenario. One current issue for the use of SJTs today is finding ways to reduce levels of ethnic subgroup differences in scores which can lead to adverse impact. The purpose of the current study is to examine the components of SJTs having potential in reducing ethnic subgroup differences in scores. While there is ample research suggesting there are differences in ethnic subgroup scores that can be found using different formats of SJTs (e.g., written, audio, and multimedia), more research is still needed. There is also ubiquitous support suggesting cognitive loading significantly leads to greater ethnic subgroup differences in SJT scores, but more research should be conducted to compare differences between SJTs analyzing either cognitive ability or interpersonal ability (e.g., teamwork facilitation), while additionally examining differences in scores between SJT formats. The first hypothesis involves examining score differences between two types of SJTs (one written and read normally, and one with an audio enhancement). The second hypothesis involves examining subgroup differences between SJTs assessing interpersonal ability and cognitive ability. The participants will consist of undergraduate psychology students and individuals from the Amazon Mechanical Turk (M-Turk). The study is a between-subjects design and cross-sectional, with participants placed randomly into one of two groups for the two different formats of SJTs. The measures will include three SJTs. One will assess interpersonal ability, and the other two will be used to assess cognitive ability. These three SJTs will be administered to every participant. The full questionnaire containing the three SJTs will be administered through Qualtrics and the SONA pool. The audio enhanced SJTs will be created using an external software program, and each audio-visual item will be uploaded or linked to Qualtrics for each item. Data will be analyzed using a t-test and analysis of variance.
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology