Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. Application forms, interviews, and educational requirements are now legally considered employment tests. 
2. An assessment center is typically used to assess physical capabilities of skilled labor candidates.
3. Managers should use personality tests in selecting new employees, because they are the most direct measure of how well the employee will perform in the job. 
4. A test is reliable if it measures what it purports to measure and is free of bias. 

Answer 1

1. TRUE
Employment tests are legally considered to consist of any procedure used in the employment-selection decision process. Thus, even application forms, interviews, and educational requirements are now considered tests.
2. FALSE
Some companies have an assessment center, in which management candidates participate in activities for a few days while being assessed by evaluators.
3. FALSE
Personality tests should be used with caution because of the difficulty of measuring personality characteristics and of making a legal defense if the results are challenged. Also, performance tests measure performance on actual job tasks, which is a more direct technique.
4. FALSE
Reliability is the degree to which a test measures the same thing consistently and validity means the test measures what it purports to measure and is free of bias.