From: Francesca S. Alcorn (unicorn@greenepa.net)
Date: Mon 08 Mar 2004 - 22:26:23 GMT
>Does anyone know of a decent review article that addresses people's
>behaviour when filling in psychometric tests? (i.e. the way they
>might try to guess what the right sort of answer might be instead of
>answering honestly, and perhaps arms race style counter-tactics by
>various designers such as repeating the question with a different
>formulation).
>
>Cheers, Chris.
>
I was hoping someone else would help you out with this because I am
trying to remember stuff I learned in class over 10 years ago. But
IIRC some of this stuff ought to give you a place to start.
You might want to start with the term "face validity": the extent to
which an assessment instrument subjectively appears to be measuring
what it is supposed to measure. It is sometimes desirable in a test
since it gives the test taker more confidence in the results. Tests
with low face validity are harder to anticipate "correct" answers.
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) has a
subscale called the social compliance(?) subscale in which they give
you questions and if you give the socially appropriate (try to guess
the "right" answer) response instead of the less-socially acceptable
but-more-likely honest response then you rate high on that subscale
and they take it into acoount when interpreting the rest of your
scores. Sorry I don't know of any good review article but that ought
to give you a start. Pretty sure the MMPI has been used alot in
employment testing.
frankie
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