Die gebruik van werkergeoriënteerde veranderlikes vir die voorspelling van posbekleëraanlegte
- Authors: Smith, Casper Henry
- Date: 2014-11-20
- Subjects: Occupational aptitude tests , Ability - Testing - Evaluation , Ability - Testing
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:12985 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12873
- Description: M.Com. (Industrial Psychology) , Please refer to full text to view abstract
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- Authors: Smith, Casper Henry
- Date: 2014-11-20
- Subjects: Occupational aptitude tests , Ability - Testing - Evaluation , Ability - Testing
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:12985 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12873
- Description: M.Com. (Industrial Psychology) , Please refer to full text to view abstract
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The measurement of social desirability : a cross-cultural perspective
- Authors: Odendaal, Aletta
- Date: 2013-07-18
- Subjects: Social desirability , Personality tests , Psychological tests , Ability - Testing
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:7633 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8503
- Description: D. Phil. (Industrial Psychology) , This study focused on the measurement of social desirability from a cross-cultural perspective. In applied settings industrial psychologists use social desirability scales to eliminate sources of bias or systematic error that are not relevant to the measured attribute, to identify applicants who are deliberately presenting themselves in a positive manner, to adjust personality scale scores or to flag potentially invalid personality profiles. Socially desirable responding on personality measures continues to be an important concern for researchers and practitioners due to the potentially serious consequences of response distortion in personnel selection contexts. The effect of socially desirable responding on the validity and utility of personality testing in employment settings has been extensively debated and researched internationally. However, depending on the operational definition of social desirability used and the choice of research design, research results have been mixed and at times contradictory. In addition, there is growing recognition that the cross-cultural transferability of the social desirability construct needs to be empirically examined. Furthermore, the influence of potential race and ethnic group differences in social desirability scale scores, which can lead to disproportional selection ratios, has not been sufficiently researched in South Africa. This study therefore focused on the systematic analysis of theoretical and scientific evidence relating to socially desirable responding in occupational settings across different cultures and across different personality instruments currently in use in South Africa.
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- Authors: Odendaal, Aletta
- Date: 2013-07-18
- Subjects: Social desirability , Personality tests , Psychological tests , Ability - Testing
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:7633 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8503
- Description: D. Phil. (Industrial Psychology) , This study focused on the measurement of social desirability from a cross-cultural perspective. In applied settings industrial psychologists use social desirability scales to eliminate sources of bias or systematic error that are not relevant to the measured attribute, to identify applicants who are deliberately presenting themselves in a positive manner, to adjust personality scale scores or to flag potentially invalid personality profiles. Socially desirable responding on personality measures continues to be an important concern for researchers and practitioners due to the potentially serious consequences of response distortion in personnel selection contexts. The effect of socially desirable responding on the validity and utility of personality testing in employment settings has been extensively debated and researched internationally. However, depending on the operational definition of social desirability used and the choice of research design, research results have been mixed and at times contradictory. In addition, there is growing recognition that the cross-cultural transferability of the social desirability construct needs to be empirically examined. Furthermore, the influence of potential race and ethnic group differences in social desirability scale scores, which can lead to disproportional selection ratios, has not been sufficiently researched in South Africa. This study therefore focused on the systematic analysis of theoretical and scientific evidence relating to socially desirable responding in occupational settings across different cultures and across different personality instruments currently in use in South Africa.
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Die ontwikkeling van 'n bekwaamheidsmodel vir die beroep van die landbouvoorligter
- Authors: Van der Walt, Isak Dawid
- Date: 2014-09-30
- Subjects: Agricultural extension workers , Competency based education , Ability - Testing
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:12441 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12228
- Description: M.Com. , Please refer to full text to view abstract
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- Authors: Van der Walt, Isak Dawid
- Date: 2014-09-30
- Subjects: Agricultural extension workers , Competency based education , Ability - Testing
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:12441 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12228
- Description: M.Com. , Please refer to full text to view abstract
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Assessing the culture fairness of an intelligence test by adjusting the test times and pictorial examples : a pilot study with grade 2 learners in four Johannesburg schools
- Coppard, Samantha Leigh Mary
- Authors: Coppard, Samantha Leigh Mary
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Children - Intelligence testing , Ability - Testing
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/402261 , uj:33655
- Description: Abstract : The HPCSA’s Policy on the Classification of psychometric measuring devices, instruments, methods and techniques, warns that it would be “unwise” (p.1) for the assessment profession to not pursue the adaption of existing and development of new, culturally fair tests. Even so, very few culturally relevant tests have been developed in South Africa (Foxcroft, Paterson, Le Roux, & Herbest, 2004). This is despite practitioners becoming more cognisant of the importance of using sound assessments, which maintain their validity across cultural groups (Paterson & Uys, 2005). There is an urgent need for the development and adaption of psychometric assessments in order to assure their validity in a multicultural South Africa. A test is deemed culturally fair if the test is void of test items that are a source of potential bias. A culture fair intelligence test should therefore accurately test an individual’s intelligence level regardless of their cultural or socio-economic background. Many psychologists believe that the idea that a test “can be completely absent of cultural bias” (Benson, 2003, p.1), that is culture free, is not possible. That being said, a culture fair, as opposed to culture free, test is a necessary and vital goal to strive towards should the assessment profession want to confirm to the regulations as outlined by the HPCSA and the employment Equity Act. In this pilot research project, I argue that the presence of a time limit as well as a formal testing situation could increase test anxiety, and therefore hamper the learner’s ability to supply answers that accurately reflect his/her intellectual ability. An adapted CFT1- R was administered to the sample. In order to establish the optimum time limit for each subtest, the following intervention was implemented during Adaptation of an intelligence test to assess its cultural fairness vii administration. Once the official time for the subtest had lapsed, the administrators marked each child’s progress at 30 second intervals. This continued until the child had finished the subtest, at which point the administrator made a note of the total time needed to complete the test. The results of the data analysis indicated that South African learners may require more time, when completing the CFT1-R, than their German counterparts. Findings also indicated that mother tongue tuition versus second language tuition could possibly influence the child’s ability to perform on a cognitive assessment. A further assumption that could be drawn from the findings is the effect of preschool education, both in terms of the child’s access to a preschool education as well as the quality of education that was received. These assumptions require further research. Adaptation of an intelligence test to assess its cultural fairness. , M.Ed. (Childhood Education)
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- Authors: Coppard, Samantha Leigh Mary
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Children - Intelligence testing , Ability - Testing
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/402261 , uj:33655
- Description: Abstract : The HPCSA’s Policy on the Classification of psychometric measuring devices, instruments, methods and techniques, warns that it would be “unwise” (p.1) for the assessment profession to not pursue the adaption of existing and development of new, culturally fair tests. Even so, very few culturally relevant tests have been developed in South Africa (Foxcroft, Paterson, Le Roux, & Herbest, 2004). This is despite practitioners becoming more cognisant of the importance of using sound assessments, which maintain their validity across cultural groups (Paterson & Uys, 2005). There is an urgent need for the development and adaption of psychometric assessments in order to assure their validity in a multicultural South Africa. A test is deemed culturally fair if the test is void of test items that are a source of potential bias. A culture fair intelligence test should therefore accurately test an individual’s intelligence level regardless of their cultural or socio-economic background. Many psychologists believe that the idea that a test “can be completely absent of cultural bias” (Benson, 2003, p.1), that is culture free, is not possible. That being said, a culture fair, as opposed to culture free, test is a necessary and vital goal to strive towards should the assessment profession want to confirm to the regulations as outlined by the HPCSA and the employment Equity Act. In this pilot research project, I argue that the presence of a time limit as well as a formal testing situation could increase test anxiety, and therefore hamper the learner’s ability to supply answers that accurately reflect his/her intellectual ability. An adapted CFT1- R was administered to the sample. In order to establish the optimum time limit for each subtest, the following intervention was implemented during Adaptation of an intelligence test to assess its cultural fairness vii administration. Once the official time for the subtest had lapsed, the administrators marked each child’s progress at 30 second intervals. This continued until the child had finished the subtest, at which point the administrator made a note of the total time needed to complete the test. The results of the data analysis indicated that South African learners may require more time, when completing the CFT1-R, than their German counterparts. Findings also indicated that mother tongue tuition versus second language tuition could possibly influence the child’s ability to perform on a cognitive assessment. A further assumption that could be drawn from the findings is the effect of preschool education, both in terms of the child’s access to a preschool education as well as the quality of education that was received. These assumptions require further research. Adaptation of an intelligence test to assess its cultural fairness. , M.Ed. (Childhood Education)
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