Some assessment methods involve much higher costs to develop and administer than
others. Consider, for example, work sample assessments that require candidates to
spend a full day or more to complete actual tasks and activities they will be required
to perform on the job. Such assessments are more costly to both develop and administer
compared with paper-and-pencil tests. They are more costly to develop because
they typically require involving job experts working in collaboration with test development
experts to design the exercises and scoring protocols. They are more expensive
to administer because they involve setting up equipment and facilities and
paying trained evaluators to observe and score how well each candidate performs on
the assessment exercises.