You are an HR Specialist working in Talent Acquisition evaluate a new selection tool that assesses an applicant’s emotional intelligence.
1. You are an HR Specialist working in Talent Acquisition. Your boss has asked you to evaluate a new selection tool that assesses an applicant’s emotional intelligence. In the process of evaluating this test, you are getting ready to talk with the test vendor to better understand whether the test of emotional intelligence is adequate enough for you to incorporate it into your screening process. In preparation for this meeting, you’re drafting a list of questions you would ask the test vendor to evaluate the assessment.
First, from the perspective of an HR practitioner interested in measurement and psychometrics, describe the questions you would ask the test vendor to evaluate the test of emotional intelligence, and provide specific justification for each. (10 points)
2.Second, explain the technical evidence or answer you would need for each question you wrote above to feel sufficiently confident in proceeding with using the assessment. (10 points)
3. Finally, explain why these questions are practically important, as this is something you will want to be able to discuss and explain to your boss. In other words, why should your boss care about the underlying properties of this assessment, and how do these properties relate to superior prediction?
