True / False Questions
1. Much of the work in personnel selection involves measuring characteristics of people to determine who will be accepted for job openings.
2. The degree to which a measure is free from random error refers to its reliability.
3. The correlation coefficient is a measure of the degree to which several numbers are related.
4. A measure must be reliable to have validity.
5. A concurrent criterion-related validation strategy correlates job incumbents' scores on a test with existing measures of their performance.
6. It is generally true that smaller correlations are better.
7. Content validation strategies employ experts' judgments regarding the validity of the selection method.
8. Where there are small sample settings, content validation is generally less applicable than criterion-related validation.
9. Generalizability is defined as the degree to which the validity of a selection method established in one context extends to other contexts.
10. There are two primary contexts over which you might like to generalize: different situations and different samples of people.
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