Observation Accuracy for Assessors of Work-Sample Performance: Consistency across Task and Individual-Differences Correlates
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1991
Keywords
Consistency (Measurement), Individual Differences, Job Performance, Personality Correlates, Air Force Personnel
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.76.1.11
Abstract
Consistency and correlates of observation accuracy were examined with videotapes of mechanics performing 2 jet-engine installation tasks. Job experts confirmed errors scripted into selected task steps. Their consensus pass/fail evaluations became target scores for evaluating observation accuracy. 79 jet-engine mechanics viewed the videotapes, made pass/fail ratings on each task step, and completed cognitive, personality, rating-style, and task-effort measures. Hit rate, false-alarm rate, and bias indexes were more consistent across the 2 tasks than in previous research on performance-evaluation accuracy. A discrimination index was less stable. The pattern of individual-differences correlates of observation accuracy was for the most part different from the pattern found in research on performance evaluation and person perception.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Applied Psychology, v. 76, issue 1, p. 9-16
Scholar Commons Citation
Borman, Walter C. and Hallam, Glenn L., "Observation Accuracy for Assessors of Work-Sample Performance: Consistency across Task and Individual-Differences Correlates" (1991). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1118.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1118
