[IPAC-List] selection validation question

[Megan Paul]

I am currently considering the use of a commercially available selection 
tool (vendor and tool shall rename nameless). An in-house 
criterion-related validation study was done on the test many years ago, 
but the test was never implemented. The job has since changed enough 
that I would not feel comfortable implementing the test on the basis of 
the old results.

When I recently spoke with the one of the company's consultants and said 
that I wanted to do another criterion-related validity study, this time 
using their assistance with analyses, I was told that the research 
process needed to start with a job analysis and validity generalization 
research (both done by said company and requiring a significant amount 
of time on their part and my client's). The criterion-related validation 
is apparently considered a "follow-up" to all the other work. When I 
said I only wanted to do the criterion-related validation portion (a 
simple and quick concurrent validation), she told me that the company 
has to do the job analysis and validity generalization first, because 
"that's what the Uniform Guidelines require."

There's a lot I could say here, but I will just start with a question. 
Reactions??

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Megan E. Paul, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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