Measuring Student’s Economic Behavior Using Situational Judgment Tests: Construct Validity Evidence

An Evaluation of the Construct Validity of Situational Judgment Tests

Measuring General Aviation Pilot Judgment Using a Situational Judgment Technique

This paper reports on 2 studies that were conducted to develop and to evaluate a situational judgment test (SJT) for general aviation (GA) pilots. An initial 51-item test was constructed in which each item described an in-flight situation that required a decision on the part of the pilot and 4 alternative solutions to the situation. Subject matter experts were used to generate a scoring key fro...

How "situational" is judgment in situational judgment tests?

Whereas situational judgment tests (SJTs) have traditionally been conceptualized as low-fidelity simulations with an emphasis on contextualized situation descriptions and context-dependent knowledge, a recent perspective views SJTs as measures of more general domain (context-independent) knowledge. In the current research, we contrasted these 2 perspectives in 3 studies by removing the situatio...

Situational Tests in Student Selection: An Examination of Predictive Validity, Adverse Impact, and Construct Validity

The Flemish Admission Exam `Medical and Dental Studies' is comprised of four cognitive ability tests and four situational tests, namely two work samples (i.e., a lecture and a medical text) and two video-based situational judgement tests (i.e., a physician±patient interaction and a medical expert discussion). On the basis of the Admission Exam scores of 941 candidates (359 men, 582 women) this ...

Validity Toward an Understanding of Situational Judgment Item Validity

Consensually scored situational judgment tests using Likert scale response formats can be substantially improved with respect to validity, Black-White mean differences, resistance to faking, and test length. This improvement is achieved with two simple adjustments. The first adjustment is controlling for elevation and scatter (Cronbach & Gleser, 1953). This adjustment substantially improves ite...