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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The workplace is figuring out that school brands are kind of meaningless -and testing at all levels is on the rise.  My daughter is a recruiter in finance and top employers now require a LOT of testing just to get in the door, including personality, math, logic and writing assessments.  [b]You can't prep for these tests or take them over again - and there are no accommodations.  [/b]Candidates (of all races and backgrounds), including the sort of "elite" credentials many DCUMers salivate over here, often bomb or don't get by the tests.    Top employers want proof that the candidate is as good as they look on paper, because degrees don't prove much of anything these days.[/quote]

That testing might be found discriminatory/illegal at some point, too. Especially if it violates ADA compliance.[/quote]

I design the workplace tests, and there are accommodations where needed. But the reality is that most workplace tasks aren’t particularly speed-sensitive. The exceptions are of course things like nuclear reactor monitor, air traffic controller etc where timed perception/ judgement tests are appropriate.

The SAT has limited validity for predicting important criteria. As with most tests there is an inflection point in the correlation between test performance and criterion performance. Once the score exceeds the inflection point, there is little to be gained by picking people with higher scores.

And even the best tests can only predict about 5% of the variation in human performance. [/quote]

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