[IPAC-List] Norms

[Joel Wiesen]

Hi Lance,

Might you provide a citation or two for courts counting one applicant as 
multiple applicants based on the applicant taking a test multiple times?

Thanks.

Joel


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On 1/8/14 1:27 PM, Lance Seberhagen wrote:

> Why not report all three norms?  Each one may provide useful information

> for different purposes, and it would also be useful to know if there

> were significant differences between norms.

>

> In employment discrimination cases, EEOC and the courts normally count

> every test score in the calculation of adverse impact.  In other words,

> if the same applicant takes the test 10 times, the applicant counts as

> 10 applicants, even though they are the same person. Calculations based

> on all test scores could have the effect of magnifying adverse impact.

> Therefore, it is often helpful for employers to calculate adverse impact

> in at least two ways: (1) all-test-scores and (2) first-score-only to

> provide a more clear picture of adverse impact.

>

> Employers should also track how many times the same applicant takes a

> given test to see if there could be a problem with over-exposure of the

> test.  Some employers permit unlimited retesting, and I have seen cases

> in which the same applicant took the test 10 times or more, within a

> relatively sort time period, before they finally passed the test.

>

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> On 1/8/2014 12:49 PM, Patrick McCoy wrote:

>> I am currently running off some normative data on a test (means and

>> frequency distributions) to see how people are doing on it and to see

>> what proportion pass at various cutoff scores.

>> My question concerns how to handle the issue of candidates taking the

>> same test more than once.  One option would be to use only the first

>> test score.  Another would be to use all scores.  A third option would

>> be to use only the most recent score.

>> My tendency would be to use the most recent score or all scores, and I

>> suspect that the results from these two approaches will be quite

>> similar in most instances.  Does that make sense or am I missing

>> something?

>> Your thinking on this would be appreciated!

>> Pat McCoy

>> Ottawa Canada

>>

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