THE NEW UNIFORM GUIDELINES ON EMPLOYEE SELECTION PROCEDURES IN THE CONTEXT OF UNIVERSITY PERSONNEL DECISIONS

The new Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures are considered in a context of university employment decisions. The use of student evaluations as valid criteria for faculty personnel decisions such as hiring, retention, tenure, promotion, or salary increases is examined. Standards of validity contained in the Guidelines are probably not being met with regard to most student rating forms currently used. Recommendations are made regarding use of student and administrators' ratings as criteria for personnel decisions. The need for studies on contaminating sources of variance in ratings is emphasized.     

The Relationship of Work Values to Occupational Level in Young Adult Workers

This research was designed to assess the relationship of work values as measured by Super's Work Values Inventory to job level. A total of 202 young adult workers (136 males, 66 females) between the ages of 18 and 25 in unskilled, semiskilled, skilled, and clerical-sales positions were surveyed. Differences in work values by sex and job level were found. Implications for counselors are discussed.     

A Validity and Multiple Regression Study of Performance in the GEPI as a Predictor for Performance on the GED

This study attempts to determine the relationship between the subtests of the General Education Performance Index (GEPI) and the revised version of the General Educational Development Test (GED), and reports a technique whereby performance on the GEPI may be used to predict performance on the GED. Participants were men and women, aged 16 to 62, who were given the GEPI and then the GED. Multiple regression equations were generated to predict GED scores using age and each GEPI score. No significant correlation was found between age and GED scores or between age and GEPI scores, but a highly significant correlation (p > .001) was found between each GEPI subtest score and the subsequent score attained on the GED. Regression equations for each subtest and cross validation that demonstrated high predictive validity for each regression equation are reported.     

Perceived velocity as a function of reference mark density

The effect on apparent visual speed of varying the density of stationary reference marks evenly distributed along the path of motion of a point of light was measured using tactile comparison motion. The sensitivity of the tactile method of measuring visual speed was supported by the finding that the tactile measures increased with each increase in physical speed of the point of light, other factors held constant. This procedure was applied in two experiments to visual displays in which the physical speed, extent of motion, and number and density of reference marks was varied. Only reference mark density, in addition to physical speed, was found to be a signficant (and robust) factor in determining perceived speed. The effect of reference mark density is explained in terms of the increasing contribution of relative motion cues to the perception of visual speed as a funciton of the average separation (or average adjacency) of the moving point from surrounding reference marks.