Item selection counts: A comparison of empirical key and rational scale validities in theory-based and non-theory-based item pools

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 143-151

  Reiter Palmon, Roni ^a   Connelly, Mary Shane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034131552     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.85.1.143     Document Type: Review

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