The impact of Canadian employment selection issues on validation research.

Canadian industrial/organizational psychologists are being challenged to justify the use of employment selection tests to ensure adherence to fair employment practice legislation. The author examines 4 issues related to validation research: the definition of terms, such as validity, test bias, and test fairness; sample size; the adverse impact of employment tests; and the legal responsibilities of test users. Strategies of concurrent validation, validity generalization, synthetic validation, and latent trait theory are discussed. (French abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)