Discussion Board:
Please use the assigned readings, including the textbook, in order to answer the questions below.
What is “meta analysis”: What are its major pros and cons? Find a research article that uses a meta-analysis to study personality assessment to predict performance. Provide a brief overview and the main finding(s). Attach the PDF.
The Principles (SIOP, 2018) speak to the concept of validity generalization. What are the pros and cons of using validity generalization to support personnel selection? Are you more swayed by proponents, such as Le et al. (2007) or the dissenters, such as James et al. (1992) and LeBreton et al. (2014)?
Paul Sackett is a past President of SIOP and is highly published and respected. There are two articles in the Readings recently published by Dr. Sackett and colleagues; get familiar with both. They may influence your answer to the meta analysis questions.
Look at Table 1 and Figure 1 in Sackett et al. (2023). Do they make you want to change anything you wrote in Week 1 about any assessment practices, and maybe pique your interest in any different assessment?
Another past President of SIOP is Michael Campion. At a SIOP convention, he was quoted as saying that we will look back at the last 20 (now 30) years of using meta-analyses and wonder why. Why do you suppose he feels that way? (and still does, in checking back with him.)
Book References:
Schmitt, N. (Ed.). (2012) The Oxford handbook of personnel assessment and selection. Oxford University Press.
