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Organizations and Psychological Testing

integration, without the hire producing much value in exchange. For this reason, organizations often use psychological testing dur...

Intelligence Tests and the Subjectivity of Results

intelligence is not a singular definable trait, but that intelligence as a whole can only be understood and measured in specific c...

Personality Tests - Their Limited Value

tests in order to assess the potential compatibility of employees that they are considering hiring. However, there is little, if a...

Hypothesis Testing and its Applications

is "statistically significant" or likely to occur by chance. For example, even if treatment A outperforms treatment B in the major...

The Ethics of Drug Testing

about the validity of such tests, and some go further to claim that constitutional rights are denied. But employers and parents of...

Self-Analysis of Automatic Attidudes

unacceptable to have negative attitudes towards different groups of people, e.g., different races. Despite the publicity and even ...

Nonparametric Testing and ANOVA

that are certain to be useful in statistically assessing complex scenarios in which variance between more than two factors must be...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Developing Psychological Assessments

insofar as Dr. Zak left the questionnaires at each residence and residents did or did not complete the form through their own voli...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Coca-Cola And Pepsi Advertising Influences Consumers

rivals since each was founded. Coca-Cola consistently wins greater market share than Pepsi. The two companies have engaged in aggr...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

Illustrative Paper on Animal Testing for Medical Purposes

humans suffering a particular disease. Many researchers maintain that animal DNA and human DNA are so similar, that test results ...

DNA and the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification Project

so-called cold cases and have been on the books for a year or more (Eisenberg and Planz, 2008). Under current policies, some huma...

Test Taking Skills (A Literature Review)

skim the questions as they are worried that they will run out of time. However, this could lead to a misinterpretation of some of ...

Educational Issues in Two-Year Colleges with Regard to the Hospitality Industry

national organization called FairTest, a criterion-referenced test is used to measure how well a student has "learned a specific b...

Gender Differences in Online Fashion Spending

not there are differences and the difference patterns seen in the market, with men buying clothes for men is associated with conve...

Ethics, Society, and the Science of Genetic Testing/Screening and Counseling

including confirmation of a suspected medical diagnosis, as a predictor to an individuals susceptibility to a particular illness a...

Use of Statistics

there are two degrees of freedom, so using the table below we can see we need to reject the null hypothesis, with an Alpha of 0.00...

Testing Inventory and Cash Process in an Audit

a secure location, but observations may indicate this is not always the case. In addition to this observation, such as the scannin...

Exploring the Legality and Ethics of Drug Screening at Work

Literature Review George (1997) performed an analysis of 1617 specimens collected from drug screening from 82 separate work...

When To Test Employees for Drugs

Act of 1991 demanded mandatory drug and alcohol testing "for employees in safety-sensitive positions," and was implemented by the ...

Pledge of Allegiance, 'Under God,' and Newdow v. U.S. Congress

its adherence to the so-called Exception clause of the Constitution, a clause tested through three separate theories: the Lemon t...

Animal Testing Alternatives

doses of a chemical until half the group dies. Even though other countries abandoned this practice years ago in favor of alternati...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...

Double Blind Testing and the Tuskegee Experiments

is all about. By conducting such an experiment it is believed that the results will be completely unbiased. In this case we can cl...

Question on the Productivity of Software Testing

on this mission to the detriment of customers needs. Kan, Basili and Shapiro (1994) report that the "the 1960s and the year...

Diagnostic Testing in an AIDS Analysis

rather than late (Poznansky et al, 1995). To determine if this was the case, researchers compared 97 newly diagnosed HIV p...

ISAT

10 be tested (Bettis, 2004). The Illinois Goals Assessment Program (IGAP) was created to "develop competency-based tests" (Bettis,...

Reducing the Number of Hispanic High School Dropouts Proposal

drop out rate. Instead we must concentrate our efforts on improving the environment of our classrooms so that it does not discour...