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Online Testing

Harnessing the value that the Internet provides for testing and assessment has caused debate within the HR profession and across Occupational Psychology. Issues surrounding fakeability, cheating and validation, that the person completing the questionnaire online is the person that they say they are, have all led to many column inches in the trade press and time spent at conferences. There is also the security issue: how secure can test results be when completed across the worldwide web?

SHL is proud not only to contribute to this debate, but to help shape the standards and practices, providing guidelines to our clients and investing heavily in IT security and infrastructure.

01 Nov 05 Computer-Based Testing and the Internet: Issues and Advances

Bartram, D, Hambleton, R K (2005)

01 Dec 04 Online Testing: Mode of Administration and the Stability of OPQ32i Scores (478 KB, pdf)

Bartram, D & Brown, A (2004); International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 12 (3), 278-284

26 Sep 03

An interview with Eugene Burke who talks about the risks and rewards of online testing and how companies are focusing on 'employer brand' compatibility.

01 May 03 Item Response Theory: A Non-technical Primer (44 KB, pdf)

Bartram D; May 2003

01 Jan 03 Test-taker Reactions to Online Completion of the OPQ32i (44 KB, pdf)

Brown, A and Bartram, D; SHL Research Report 2003

01 Nov 02 Equivalence of NMG3 and NMG4 Across Administration Models (28 KB, pdf)

Bartram, D; SHL Research Report November 2002

01 Jan 02

A paper presented demonstrating how online testing can be used in organisations.

01 Jan 01

A paper considering how assessment and development centres can be impacted by new technologies.

01 Jan 01 Testing and the Internet: Mapping the Issues for Managing the Future (130 KB, pdf)

Bartram, D; BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2001

01 Jan 00 The EFPPA Survey of Test Use: Some Findings from the UK (424 KB, pdf)

Bartram, D; BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2002

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