Membership
Application
MAPAC MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Directions: Please print this page to complete and submit
to:
Jim Frankart
Bureau of Personnel Assessment
Test Development Division
State Civil Service Commission
P.O. Box 569
Harrisburg, PA 17108-0569
jfrankart@state.pa.us
I. GENERAL INFORMATION
A. Agency:
B. Address:
C. Phone:
D. Contact Person:
E. Agency Personnel: Name Title
1. Chief Personnel Administrator
2. Chief Examiner
3. Director of Selection Research
II. AGENCY INFORMATION
A. Agency Organization: Indicate
Department/Bureau/Division names and functions, and how your
agency "fits into" your state, city or county
government organization. (Please attach an organization chart
to this form.)
B. Are all major personnel functions (e.g.,
classification, examination, recruitment, labor relations,
etc.) Under your agency’s control? If not, please
explain briefly.
C. How many people are employed by your
agency (not including CETA employees)?_______________
D. What is the size of your agency’s
current fiscal year budget?________________
III. MERIT SYSTEM DATA
A. Number of employees under civil service
coverage in your jurisdiction?_______________
B. Number of jobs titles in your
classification/compensation system?_________________
C. Number of applicants examined each
year?_______________
D. Number of job titles examined for each
year?______________
E. What percentage of your merit system
employees hold conditional civil service status (e.g.,
emergency, provisional, etc.)?_______________
IV. EXAMINATION STAFF DATA
A. Number of professionals working full-time
in selection (including supervisors):______________
B. Briefly describe the major duties of your
examiners (e.g., job analysis, recruitment, determination of
eligibility, test development, etc.).
C. Average test development experience of
examiners:
( ) Less than 2 years
( ) 2-5 years
( ) More than 5 years
D. Training (other than on-the-job) of
examiners. (Check box if more than 1/3 of examiners have had
the training.
( ) Introduction to Test and Measurements
( ) Personnel Selection
( ) Statistics
( ) Job Analysis
( ) Test Construction
E. What percent of your examiners have
graduate degrees which include course work relevant to
personnel selection such as Psychology, Personnel Selection,
Measurement, Counseling, or closely related fields?
F. What percent of your examiners have
undergraduate degrees which include course work relevant to
personnel selection such as Psychology, Personnel Selection,
Measurement, Counseling, or closely related fields?
G. How many of these persons are individual
members of IPMAAC, APA, or other relevant professional
organizations, (specify)?
V. PERSONNEL RESEARCH
A. How many full-time selection researchers
are on your staff?______________
B. How many predictive or concurrent validity
studies have been conducted by your staff during the past 5
years?______________
C. Please provide at least one example of
selection research completed in the last 12 months by your
staff.
VI. EXAMINATION INVENTORY
A. Describe your most critical examination
needs.
B. What are your examination strengths?
C. Would you be willing to exchange your test
materials with other jurisdictions?
D. In terms of number of employees, what are
your largest five job classes? Indicate the type(s) of examination(s) you use for each. Indicate if these tests has
been statistically validated or content validated.
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Criterion-Related Validation
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VII. TESTING PRACTICES
Check those steps which are
typically taken in your selection work and indicate if you have
written guidelines or procedures which are followed by your
examiners.
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Testing Practice |
Usually Done |
Written Procedures |
| A. |
Performance of job analysis |
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Identification of knowledges, skills and abilities
from job analysis data |
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Planning and construction of examination by your
staff |
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Review of examination by subject matter experts |
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Documentation of the test's relationship to KSA
requirements of the job |
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Pilot Test prior to administration |
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Collection of item analysis data and use of it to
edit items |
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Following of security measures to protect test
materials during examination
preparation, duplication, administration, scoring,
storing and research |
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VIII. MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED
Please indicate below the number of tests your
staff developed in the last year. Count each technique every time
it was used, even if it is only part of a multi-part examination.
A. Written ability tests
__________________________
B. Written job knowledge tests
__________________________
C. Ratings of education and experience and
biographical inventories __________________________
D. Structured oral examinations
__________________________
E. Performance of work sample tests
__________________________
F. Assessment centers ________________________
G. Others (please specify) _____________________________
IX. COOPERATIVE EFFORTS
List your ideas on selection improvement activities which you
would like to see performed cooperatively by MAPAC member
jurisdictions.
X. SELECTION IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS
A. What steps have you taken to improve your selection
program during the past few years (e.g., test validation
studies, job analysis or test development documentation
forms, readability studies, studies of examination techniques
such as ratings of education and experience, etc.).
B. What selection improvement efforts do you hope to
initiate in the next few years?
XI. SELECTION PROBLEMS AND PRIORITIES
What are your three most serious selection problems or
needs that you are unable to solve with existing resources?
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