Introduction: A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous.

Why Test?

Why Read This Book?

A Confusing State of Affairs.

Misleading Familiarity.

Inaccessible Technology.

Procedural Confusion.

Testing and Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation.

Certifi cation in the Corporate World.

Corporate Testing Enters the New Millennium.

What Is to Come. . .

PART I: BACKGROUND: THE FUNDAMENTALS.

1 Test Theory.

2 Types of Tests.

PART II: OVERVIEW: THE CRTD MODEL AND PROCESS.

3 The CRTD Model and Process.

PART III: THE CRTD PROCESS: PLANNING AND CREATING THE TEST.

4 Plan Documentation.

5 Analyze Job Content.

6 Content Validity of Objectives.

7 Create Cognitive Items.

8 Create Rating Instruments.

9 Establish Content Validity of Items and Instruments.

10 Initial Test Pilot.

11 Statistical Pilot.

12 Parallel Forms.

13 Cut-Off Scores.

14 Reliability of Cognitive Tests.

15 Reliability of Performance Tests.

16 Report Scores.

PART IV: LEGAL ISSUES IN CRITERION-REFERENCED TESTING.

17 Criterion-Referenced Testing and Employment.

Epilogue: CRTD as Organizational Transformation.

References.

Index.

About the Authors.