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RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS AND FAKING ON SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS

Broadfoot, Alison A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1161283237

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2006, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) are commonly used in personnel selection. These tests give respondents a series of job related scenarios and ask them to select the most appropriate response from multiple response options. There are two common types of instructions on these tests: self prediction instructions (“what would you do”) and best choice instructions (“what should you do”). This thesis investigated whether these two types of instructions can be faked and how this affects the criterion-related validity of two SJTs. This thesis also investigated whether Mixture Model-Item Response Theory (MM-IRT) can reliably identify respondents who faked good on the two SJTs. Results found instructions do affect the fakability of the SJTs and that this affects the tests’ criterion-related validity. Specifically, instructions asking respondents to indicate what they would do (self prediction instructions) were found to be fakable whereas best choice instructions were found to not be fakable. Also, the self prediction instructions produced higher criterion-related validities than the best choice instructions, providing evidence that the self prediction instructions may be more useful in predicting performance. For the self prediction instruction, an application of MM-IRT was able to consistently identify respondents who faked good on the SJTs. A major implication of these findings is that MM-IRT may have uses in personnel selection for identifying applicants that fake on fakable, but useful, selection instruments such as SJTs with self prediction instructions.
Mike Zickar (Advisor)
83 p.
Personnel selection; Item Response Theory; Situational Judgment Tests; Mixture Model Item Response Theory; Psychometrics

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  • Broadfoot, A. A. (2006). RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS AND FAKING ON SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1161283237

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Broadfoot, Alison. RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS AND FAKING ON SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1161283237.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Broadfoot, Alison. "RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS AND FAKING ON SITUATIONAL JUDGMENT TESTS." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1161283237

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