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Opinion

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 also there is 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.

Select an Online Testing article from the list below:

 

09-26-2003

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

05-01-2003

A quick guide to the mysteries of Item Response Theory. Want to know the difference between equating and calibration? Nor sure what an ICC is?
Bartram D
May 2003

01-01-2003

Results of a survey conducted with one of our client organisation to assess people's reactions to completing assessments online. Overall, the reactions are very positive.
Brown, A and Bartram, D January 2003
SHL Research Report 2003

11-01-2002

Compares online and offline modes of administration of numerical reasoning tests in a balanced design, and finds no evidence of impact of mode of administration.
Bartram, D.
SHL Research Report November 2002

01-01-2002

Provides evidence to show that OPQ32i scale reliabilities, intercorrelations and score distributions are not biased by use of online, unsupervised modes of administration.
Bartram, D & Brown, A (2003)
BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2002

01-01-2002

Miles, A, Baron, H
BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2002

01-01-2001

Burnett, M
BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2001

01-01-2001

Discusses a range of issues relating to the use of the Internet for assessment. These issues are grouped under four headings: Security and confidentiality; Performance; Good practice in testing; and the Potential offered by the Internet for new developments in testing.
Bartram, D
BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2001

01-01-2000

This paper describes the results for the UK of a Europe-wide survey of psychologists' attitudes to a range of issues associated with test use. The survey covered clinical and educational test use as well as occupational. Among the findings was a general concern about the lack of adequate training in test use for psychologists.
Bartram, D
BPS Occupational Psychology Conference 2002