Sheet with Instructions, Job Analysis Blank for Trades and Industrial Positions for Test Selections Purposes
date: label: date made
content: 1953
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content: U.S. Civil Service Commission
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content: By the early 1950s, the U.S. Civil Service Commission had developed a series of tests designed to measure various job skills. To determine which tests should be given to candidates for a given job, it used something called the J-Coefficient. This form was designed to determine the J-coefficient for various trades and industrial positions. As the instructions explain, six or more people who knew the job were to meet and each be given one of the forms (in a crunch, three raters would do). Each form listed 62 job skills. If a skill was not important to the job, it was to be marked with a zero. If of some importance it was given a check mark. If of extreme importance, it received a +. Brief comments were encouraged.
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content: The use of J-coefficients is sometimes associated with Ernest S. Primoff (1913-1997).
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content: References:
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content: American Psychological Association, <I>1962 Directory</I>, ed. James Q. Holsopple, Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1962, p. 576.
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content: Meyer, H.H., “Influence of Formal and Informal Organizations on the Development of I-O Psychology,” <I>Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology</I>, ed. L.L. Koppes, New York: Psychology Press, 2014, pp. 139-168, esp. p. 159
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content: Primoff, E.S. and S.A. Fine, “A History of Job Analysis,” <I>The Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry, and Government</I>, ed. S. Gael, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1988, 1, pp. 14-36.
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topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.099
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content: 1990.0034.099
label: accession number
content: 1990.0034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet with instructions
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 21.6 cm x 35.5 cm; 1/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 13 31/32 in