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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED348375 AUTHOR:


TITLE: Proceedings of the 1989 IPMAAC Conference on
Personnel Assessment (13th, Orlando, Florida, June 18-22,
1989).

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1989
NOTE: 254 p.

ABSTRACT: The International Personnel Management
Association Assessment Council (IPMAAC) is a non-profit
organization of personnel assessment professionals involved
in public personnel assessment. Author-generated
summaries/outlines of papers are presented. The keynote
address is "Ability Testing in the 1980's and Beyond: Some
Major Trends" by A. Anastasi. The categories of the
summaries of 52 papers include: management issues and
innovations; professional and legal issues; assessment
center issues; job analysis techniques and research; test
construction and validation; uniformed forces testing;
bio-data uses; screening and retaining applicants; and
developing physical ability standards. Selected topics
within the categories include: use of a job element
questionnaire and interview to select public safety
communications specialists; assessing creativity in a
content-valid test; observations of an expert witness;
agency-rated scores as an alternative to traditional
education and experience ratings for highly specialized job
classes; development of valid computer-based
tests for assessing divided attention in nuclear power
plant operators; strategies for making cut-score
determinations on a performance-based observational test;
the Missouri School Superintendent Assessment Center
Certification Program; empirical validation of firefighter
vision standards; the development of tailored response
testing; criterion validation of a preemployment
psychological test for correctional officers; decision
making in assessment centers; assessment centers and
bio-data--approaches to managerial selection; video-based
structured interviews and testing; managerial incompetence;
the development of physical ability standards; the impact
of physical standards projects on internal race and sex
relations; recent developments in job analysis research;
oral board examinations; assessing teacher candidates'
writing; the Bush Administration and the 101st Congress; a
computerized tracking system; and organizational
perspectives on the setting of cutting scores. An author
index is included.
(SLD)

KEY DESCRIPTORS: Assessment-Centers-Personnel; Computer
Assisted-Testing; Computer-Simulation; Decision-Making; Job
Analysis; Personnel-Management; Personnel-Selection; Test
Use
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Evaluation-Methods; *Job-Performance;
*Occupational-Tests; *Personnel-Evaluation; *Public-Sector

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