Assessment center procedures: Cognitive load during the observation phase

International Journal of Selection and Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 271-278

  Kolk, Nanja J ^a   Born, Marise Ph ^b   Van Der Flier, Henk ^c   Olman, Juliette M ^d  

^a Berenschot Bus Mgmt Change Fact   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Berenschot Batalas   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036902678     PISSN: 0965075X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2389.00217     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Best, J.B. (1992) Cognitive Psychology, 3rd edn. St Paul, MN: West Publishing Company.
2. Boyle, S., Fullerton, J. and Wood, R. (1998) Do assessment/development centres use optimum evaluation procedures? A survey of practice in UK organizations. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 3, 132-140.
3. Bray, D.W., Campbell, R.J. and Grant, D.L. (1974) Formative Years in Business: A Long-Term AT & T Study of Managerial Lives. New York: Wiley.
4. Cooper, W.H. (1981) Ubiquitous halo. Psychological Bulletin, 90, 218-244.
5. Cronbach, L.J. (1955) Processes affecting scores on 'understanding of others' and 'assumed similarity'. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 177-193.
6. Damitz, M., Manzey, D., Kleinmann, M. and Severin, K. (2000) Assessment center for pilot selection: Construct and criterion validity and the impact of assessor type. Manuscript submitted for publication.
7. Gaugler, B.B., Rosenthal, D.B., Thornton, G.C. and Bentson, C. (1987) Meta-analysis of assessment center validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 72, 493-511.
8. Gaugler, B.B. and Rudolph, A.S. (1992) The influence of assessee performance variation on assessors' judgments. Personnel Psychology, 45, 77-98.
9. Gaugler, B.B. and Thornton, G.C. (1989) Number of assessment center dimensions as a determinant of assessor accuracy. Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 611-618.
10. Hakstian, A.R. and Whalen, T.E. (1976) A k-sample significance test for independent alpha coefficients. Psychometrika, 41, 219-231.
11. Hays, W.L. (1972) Statistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
12. Hennessey, J., Mabey, B. and Warr, P. (1998) Assessment centre observation procedures: An experimental comparison of traditional, checklist and coding methods. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 6, 222-231.
13. Jones, R.G. (1997) A person perception explanation for validation evidence from assessment centers. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 12, 169-178.
14. Lievens, F. (2001) Assessor training strategies and their effects on accuracy, inter-rater reliability and discriminant validity. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 255-264.
15. Lievens, F. and Goemaere, H. (1999) A different look at assessment centres: Views of assessment centre users. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 7, 215-219.
16. Murphy, K.R. and Cleveland, J.N. (1995) Understanding Performance Appraisal: Social, Organizational, and Goal-Based Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
17. Ryan, A.M., Daum, D., Bauman, T., Grisez, M., Mattimore, K., Nalodka, T. and McCormick, S. (1995) Direct, indirect and controlled observation and rating accuracy. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80, 664-670.
18. Sagie, A. and Magnezy, R. (1997) Assessor type, number of distinguishable dimension categories, and assessment centre construct validity. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 70, 103-108.
19. Schleicher, D.J. and Day, D.V. (1998) A cognitive evaluation of frame-of-reference rater training: Content and process issues. Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, 73, 76-101.
20. Smither, J.W., Barry, S.R. and Reilly, R.R. (1989) An investigation of the validity of expert true score estimates in appraisal research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 143-151.
21. Spychalski, A.C., Quiñones, M.A., Gaugler, B.B. and Pohley, K. (1997) A survey of assessment center practices in organizations in the United States. Personnel Psychology, 50, 71-90.
22. Task Force on Assessment Center Guidelines (1989) Guidelines and ethical considerations for assessment center operations. Public Personnel Management, 18, 457-470.
23. Thornton, G.C. (1992) Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
24. Tziner, A., Ronen, S., Hacohen, D. (1993). A four-year validation study of an assessment center in a financial corporation. Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 14, 225-237.
25. Zedeck, S. (1986) A process analysis of the assessment center method. Research in Organizational Behaviour, 8, 259-296.