Taking the Situation in Situational Judgment Tests Seriously – A Situational Construal Perspective

认真对待情境判断测试中的情境——情境解释视角

• 批准号: 271360450
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stefan Krumm
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Psychologische Diagnostik und Differentielle und Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/271360450?language=en
• 关键词: Taking; Situation; Situational; Judgment; Tests

There was a broad consensus for more than two decades that Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) represent low-fidelity simulations, in which participants envision job-related situations and decide how to react to them. This notion was fundamentally challenged by several studies (some of which were part of the previous DFG grant). Contrary to the view of SJTs as simulations, these studies suggested that SJTs might not be as context-dependent as previously assumed.However, several scholars raised an important issue that could not be addressed in the previous grant. They argued that characteristics of a situation might still be construed correctly based on the response options, even when situation descriptions are not present. Importantly, they thereby point to the fact that test takers' situational construal has rarely been addressed in SJT research. The current grant proposal seeks to respond to these arguments and extend our perspective on SJTs by taking a close look at test takers' situational construal that is made on the basis of different components of an SJT. To this end, we integrate several theories on situation construal. As a result, we delineate and test situational construal of SJTs. Specifically, five consecutive studies are proposed. Study 1 has the major aim to test whether situation construal in form of the DIAMONDS dimensions mediates differences between SJT versions (e.g., with and without situation descriptions). Study 2 follows a similar aim but focuses on another form of situation construal that is situational strength perceptions. Yet another form of construal is targeted in Study 3 being there test taker’s perceptions of the to be identified criteria, a concept that has become prominent in research on simulations in personnel selection (referred to as the ability to identify criteria, ATIC). Study 4 examines the different forms of situation construal (as considered separately in Studies 1 to 3) in one study. Thereby we will not only test their relative importance and incremental contribution beyond each other, but we will also enable us to test our situation construal model in its entirety. An important finding of the previous DFG grant was that one specific piece of information (key information which created a dilemma) was sufficient to increase SJT performance substantially. Thus, an important question that has not yet been addressed in Studies 1 to 4 of this grant proposal is whether one key sentence is enough to enable accurate situation construal. Also, we currently do not know whether performance in such “one-sentence-SJTs” show substantial overlap with performance in full SJTs. In other words, by means of Study 5 we seek to establish the boundary conditions of situations in SJTs.

二十年来，判断测试（SJT）代表了低保真模拟，并决定如何对其做出反应。 sjts模拟为前身的假设。但是，几个学者raiss raiss the以前的赠款中无法解决的重要问题。 SJT研究中已经解决了测试者的现场依赖的事实，目前的赠款提案寻求这些论点，我们对SJT的看法仔细观察了一些基于SJT的不同组成部分进行的一些Rual将严重性的状况构建和测试的SJT的现场消费者进行测试。在研究中，另一种形式的约束是对测试者对标准的看法，概念研究4研究了差异的形式仅测试彼此的相对重要性和增量贡献。补充提案的1到4是一个关键句子是否足以使套件准确的情况约束。 SJTS中的情况。