Educational attainment as a proxy for cognitive ability in selection: effects on levels of cognitive ability and adverse impact |
| |
Authors: | Berry Christopher M Gruys Melissa L Sackett Paul R |
| |
Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. berr0159@umn.edu |
| |
Abstract: | The authors examined the differences in mean level of cognitive ability and adverse impact that can be expected when selecting employees solely on educational attainment as a proxy for cognitive ability versus selecting employees directly on cognitive ability. Selection using cognitive ability worked as a more efficient cognitive screen. Imposing an educational attainment standard of at least 1 year of college, though, did result in noticeably higher levels of cognitive ability in potential applicant pools than did random selection, meaning that educational attainment does work as a cognitive screen. These results held not only in a nationally representative sample but also within and across 6 different occupational groups. Finally, adverse impact is examined for selection using educational attainment, compared with selection on the basis of cognitive ability. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed 等数据库收录! |
|