Course Description

In today’s competitive marketplace and complex legal environment, employers face the challenge of attracting, developing, and retaining the best employees. This course is designed to help managers and human resource (HR) professionals in using assessment practices to reach their organizations’ HR goals. It conveys the essential concepts of employment testing in easy-to-understand terms

Course Objectives

·         Learning how to interpret the testing results

·         Understanding testing and evaluating tools/procedures 

·         Understanding the professional and legal standards

·         Being able to choose the employee assessment tools that are the most efficient and effective 

Who Should Attend?

·         Managers

·         Supervisors 

·         HR staff

·         Anyone involved in HR planning

Program Schedule

DAY 1

·         Personnel assessment tools

·         Relationship between the personnel assessment process and tests and procedures

·         Why do organizations conduct testing?

·         using tests in a purposeful manner

·         Limitations of personnel tests and procedures

·         Understanding the legal context of assessment with implications for assessment

·         Equal employment opportunity commission

DAY 2

·         Interpretation of reliability information from test manuals and reviews

·         Types of reliability estimates

·         Standard error of measurement

·         Methods for conducting validation studies

·         Using validity evidence from outside studies

·         How to interpret validity information from test manuals and independent reviews

DAY 3

·         Mental and physical ability tests

·         Achievement tests

·         Employment interviews

·         Medical examinations

·         Education and experience requirements 

·         Recommendations and reference checks

·         Assessment centers

DAY 4

·         Ensuring suitable and uniform assessment conditions

·         Test anxiety

·         Alternative assessment methods for special cases

·         Providing reasonable accommodation in the assessment process to people

·         Administering computer-based tests

·         Maintaining assessment instrument security 

DAY 5

·         Interpreting test results and test fallibility 

·         Combining information from many assessment tools

·         Deciding whether to test or not to test

·         Viewing tests as threats and invasions of privacy

·         Appeals process and retesting

·         Ethnic, linguistic, and cultural differences and biases