[IPAC-List] Interview Question Construction

[Shelley Spilberg]

Josh - 

Several years ago I wrote a guide for interviewing peace officer
candidates that may help (at least it's free):
http://lib.post.ca.gov/Publications/interviewguide-web.pdf.

The guide includes a bibliography and a list of selected references that
you may want to check out  (including the Hellervik et al. book) that
you may want to check out as well.  

Shelley Weiss Spilberg, Ph.D.

CA. Commission on Peace Officer Stnds. & Trng.

1601 Alhambra Boulevard

Sacramento, CA.  95816-7083

(916) 227-4824


-----Original Message-----
From: josh cowan [mailto:joshthewriter at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:04 AM
To: ipac-list at ipacweb.org
Subject: [IPAC-List] Interview Question Construction


Hi All,

Can anyone point me to good research on interview question  
construction. I'm putting together an item bank of interview and  
reference questions but having trouble locating good research  
material discussing the recommended parameters for; question length,  
# of questions/interview, anchor construction... I'll be utilizing  
both situational and behavioral questions so I'm less interested in  
the whole SI vs. PBI debate and I'll be using SME's for incident  
identification. I'm really focused on the basics of question  
construction. I'm sure these kinds of issues must be addressed  
somewhere but after spending an 1.5 hours on Google Scholar I could  
only find tangentially related articles, nothing exactly on point.  
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Josh Cowan


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