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| measures of job success typically related to performance |
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| variables about applicants that are related to (predictive of) the criteria |
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| "Situational Specificity" hypothesis |
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| real difference between settings exist, which cause validity coefficients to vary across settings. if all settings remain constant, validity will not vary. |
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| a given variable may be said to function as a mediator to the extent that it accounts for the relation between the predictor and the criterion. mediators explain how external physical events take on internal psychological significance. whereas moderator variables specify when certain effects will hold, mediators speak to how or why such effects of occur. |
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| Validity Generalization (VG) |
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| the ability of a screening instrument to predict performance in a job or setting different from the one in which the test was validated. |
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