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Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information
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Zhang, Don C
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Year and Degree
2016, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
Abstract
To promote better decisions in the workplace, organizational researchers must communicate the value of their scientific findings. Traditional statistics such as the correlation coefficient are difficult to interpret. Graphical visual aids, such as Icon arrays, have recently emerged as effective tools for simplifying probabilistic and statistical information. This dissertation examined the benefits the Icon array in communicating the validity of structured interviews. People judged the Icon array as more useful than the Binomial Effect Size Display (BESD) for communicating validity information. People were more engaged with the interactive visual aid than its static counterpart, and judged the interactive visual aid more useful. Finally, people performed better on an objective graph comprehension test when presented with an Icon array than the bar graph. The benefit of graphical displays (Icon array and bar graph), however, was moderated by individual differences in graph literacy. Bar graph and the BESD were more useful for people with high (vs. low) graph literacy. The Icon array was equally useful for people with high and low graph literacy.
Committee
Scott Highhouse, Ph.D (Advisor)
Richard Anderson, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Margaret Brooks, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D (Committee Member)
Pages
84 p.
Subject Headings
Cognitive Psychology
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Organizational Behavior
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Psychology
Keywords
structured interview
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personnel decisions
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visual aids
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Icon arrays
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graph literacy
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Zhang, D. C. (2016).
Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459517352
APA Style (7th edition)
Zhang, Don.
Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information .
2016. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459517352.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Zhang, Don. "Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information ." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459517352
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Using Icon Array as a Visual Aid for Communicating Validity Information by Don C Zhang is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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