Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs

Do, Ben-Roy

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Description

Title

Test coaching on assessments of cognitive constructs

Author(s)

Do, Ben-Roy

Issue Date

2011-01-21T22:45:54Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Drasgow, Fritz

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Drasgow, Fritz

Committee Member(s)

• Chang, Hua-Hua
• Rounds, James
• Rupp, Deborah E.
• Mead, Alan

Department of Study

Psychology

Discipline

Psychology

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Item sharing
• test security
• test coaching
• verbal reasoning
• numerical reasoning
• Theory of planned behavior
• Extraversion
• Conscientiousness
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism
• Openness to Experience

Abstract

In continuously administered employment tests, test security may be compromised by examinees revealing test items to future test candidates. Unlike academic testing, employee selection tests generally have longer test windows and are less likely to implement new test items or have multiple parallel forms for the sake of test security. Therefore, it is important to study whether test takers can benefit from item sharing, and whether integrity and personality inventories can explain such behaviors. Results showed that casual item sharing increased test scores relative to the control group, with small to moderate effect sizes. Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability were the best predictors, with conscientiousness more influential on numerical reasoning and Emotional Stability on verbal reasoning.

Graduation Semester

2010-12

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