| Abstract: | The Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures have served to create an urgent need for efficient validation methods that can be generalized to a class of occupations. The one method currently authorized for such a purpose by the Guidelines is synthetic validation. (The Guidelines erroneously describe the synthetic validity paradigm as construct validity.) Approaches to synthetic validity employed by Lawshe, Guion, McCormick, and Primoff are described. Their extent of conformance to the Guidelines validation requirements is noted. Primoff's J -Coefficient approach is recommended for two reasons; it meets the Guidelines requirements and under certain circumstances it permits the test user to estimate the traditional validity coefficient. An illustrated example of Primoff's method is presented. |
