Benchmark – Work-Based Assessment
Assessment Description
Work-based assessment is a central topic in industrial and organizational psychology. Work-based assessments are often criticized for lack of quantitative rigor and lack of predictive nature for work performance. However, companies and organizations that have clear methods to describe the work, attributes needed to perform the work, and systematic performance management systems tend to be more successful. Work-based assessment includes both predictive-based (e.g., ability test, work sample test) and a criterion-based assessment (e.g., work output). In this assignment you will evaluate and find empirical support for the theoretical approach that best describes predictive and criterion work-based assessment. What strategies would increase rigor of work-based assessment? Identify the unique role an industrial organizational psychologist has in an organization for work-based assessment.
General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:
- Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments.
- Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for specific guidelines related to doctoral level writing. The Manual contains essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.
- This assignment requires that at least three additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least two in-text citation from each source be included.
- You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite for similarity score check.
Directions:
Write (1,750-2,000 words) in which you examine a work-based assessment. In it, address the following:
- A research-based evaluation of the theoretical approach that best describes predictive and criterion work-based assessment. (Benchmarks C4.4: Evaluate theories and methods for selecting, training, appraising, organizing, and supervising both employees and managers.)
- Proposed strategies to improve work-based assessment. (Benchmarks C4.5: Evaluate methods for the selection, administration, and interpretation of workplace tests and assessments.)
- Identification of the industrial organizational psychologist’s role in work-based assessment. (Benchmarks C4.1: Identify the role of industrial organizational psychologists in an organization.)
READING RESOURCES
Parry-Smith, W., Mahmud, A., Landau, A., & Hayes, K. (2014). Workplace-based assessment: A new approach to existing tools. Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, 16(4), 281-285. doi:10.1111/tog.12133
Goodstein, L. D., & Lanyon, R. I. (1999). Applications of personality assessment to the workplace: A review. Journal of Business and Psychology, 13(3), 291.
Lefroy, J., Hawarden, A., Gay, S. P., McKinley, R. K., & Cleland, J. (2015). Grades
in formative workplace-based assessment: A study of what works for whom and
why. Medical Education, 49(3), 307-320. doi:10.1111/medu.12659
Rojon, C., McDowall, A., & Saunders, M. K. (2015). The relationships between traditional selection assessments and workplace performance criteria specificity: A comparative meta-analysis. Human Performance, 28(1), 1-25. doi:10.1080/08959285.2014.974757
