Sheet with Instructions, Job Analysis Blank for Trades and Industrial Positions for Test Selections Purposes

Sheet with Instructions, Job Analysis Blank for Trades and Industrial Positions for Test Selections Purposes

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By the early 1950s, the U.S. Civil Service Commission had developed a series of tests designed to measure various job skills. To determine which tests should be given to candidates for a given job, it used something called the J-Coefficient. This form was designed to determine the J-coefficient for various trades and industrial positions. As the instructions explain, six or more people who knew the job were to meet and each be given one of the forms (in a crunch, three raters would do). If a skill was not important to the job, it was marked with a zero. If of some importance it was checked.
The use of J-coefficients is sometimes associated with Ernest S. Primoff (1913-1997).
References:
American Psychological Association, 1962 Directory, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 576.
Meyer, H.H., “Influence of Formal and Informal Organizations on the Development of I-O Psychology,” Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, ed. L.L. Koppes, New York: Psychology Press, 2014, pp. 139-168, esp. p. 159
Primoff, E.S. and S.A. Fine, “A History of Job Analysis,” The Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry, and Government, ed. S. Gael, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988, 1, pp. 14-36.
Location
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Object Name
sheet with instructions
date made
1953
publisher
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Physical Description
paper (overall material)
Measurements
overall:.1 cm x 21.6 cm x 35.5 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 13 31/32 in
ID Number
1990.0034.099
catalog number
1990.0034.099
accession number
1990.0034
Credit Line
Gift of Samuel Kavruck
subject
Mathematics
Psychological Tests
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National Museum of American History
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