It seems wise to abandon the search for pure ability factors and to select tests instead that are valid in the sense that scores on them change as the person grows in experience, wisdom, and ability to perform effectively on various tasks that life presents to him. Thus, the second principle of the new approach to testing becomes a corollary of the first. If one begins by using as tests samples of life outcome behaviors, then one way of determining whether those tests are valid is to observe that the person's ability to perform them increases as his competence in the life outcome behavior increases.
For example, if excellence in a policeman is defined partly in terms of being evenhanded toward all minority groups, then a test of fair-mindedness ,(or lack of ethnocentrism) might be used to select policemen and also should reflect growth in fairmindedness as a police recruit develops on the job. One of the hidden prejudices of psychology, borrowed from the notion of fixed inherited aptitudes, is that any trait, like racial prejudice, is unmodifiable by training. Once a bigot, always a bigot. There is no solid evidence that this trait or any other human trait cannot be changed. So it is worth insisting that a new test should be designed especially to reflect growth in the characteristic it assesses.
It seems wise to abandon the search for pure ability factors and to select tests instead that are valid in the sense that scores on them change as the person grows in experience, wisdom, and ability to perform effectively on various tasks that life presents to him. Thus, the second principle of the new approach to testing becomes a corollary of the first. If one begins by using as tests samples of life outcome behaviors, then one way of determining whether those tests are valid is to observe that the person's ability to perform them increases as his competence in the life outcome behavior increases.
For example, if excellence in a policeman is defined partly in terms of being evenhanded toward all minority groups, then a test of fair-mindedness ,(or lack of ethnocentrism) might be used to select policemen and also should reflect growth in fairmindedness as a police recruit develops on the job. One of the hidden prejudices of psychology, borrowed from the notion of fixed inherited aptitudes, is that any trait, like racial prejudice, is unmodifiable by training. Once a bigot, always a bigot. There is no solid evidence that this trait or any other human trait cannot be changed. So it is worth insisting that a new test should be designed especially to reflect growth in the characteristic it assesses.
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It seems wise to abandon the search for pure ability factors and to select tests instead that are valid in the sense that scores on them change as the person grows in experience, wisdom, and ability to perform effectively on various tasks that life presents to him. Thus, the second principle of the new approach to testing becomes a corollary of the first. If one begins by using as tests samples of life outcome behaviors, then one way of determining whether those tests are valid is to observe that the person's ability to perform them increases as his competence in the life outcome behavior increases.
For example, if excellence in a policeman is defined partly in terms of being evenhanded toward all minority groups, then a test of fair-mindedness ,(or lack of ethnocentrism) might be used to select policemen and also should reflect growth in fairmindedness as a police recruit develops on the job. One of the hidden prejudices of psychology, borrowed from the notion of fixed inherited aptitudes, is that any trait, like racial prejudice, is unmodifiable by training. Once a bigot, always a bigot. There is no solid evidence that this trait or any other human trait cannot be changed. So it is worth insisting that a new test should be designed especially to reflect growth in the characteristic it assesses.
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