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Program Evaluation of an Assessment Center

In this unit, you read about a variety of resources, such as tests or measures and methods, which can be utilized in a variety of work settings.

In many settings, several of these resources are incorporated into a single comprehensive design or program to address multiple issues or needs, or answer multiple questions. One such program is the assessment center, which you were introduced to in your Psychological Testing and Assessment text. Since an assessment center, or any similar program using multiple assessment techniques (for example, school counseling programs, and special education intervention programs), typically provides decisions regarding a number of questions, then it is important, if not a requirement, to evaluate the program for efficacy and utility.

You also learned about the concept of utility in the context of testing and assessment as applied to a single measure in Unit 5. Considerations involved in determining utility can also be applied to large-scale testing programs that employ multiple tests or measures in a selected battery.

While the authors of your Psychological Testing and Assessment text introduced an assessment center from 1956 that incorporated multiple tools and methods, the Thornton and Gibbons’ 2009 article, “Validity of Assessment Centers for Personnel Selection,” elaborated on a review of the validity of elements of contemporary assessment centers and considerations when employing them.

Instructions

For this discussion, take into consideration the factors that affect a test’s utility, which was identified in your Psychological Testing and Assessment text as psychometric soundness, costs, and benefits (pages 212–218), as well as practical considerations when conducting utility analyses, which includes pool of applicants, complexity of the job, and use of cut scores (pages 232–235).

Identify three specific measures for a management assessment center addressing selection, placement, promotion, and career training.

1. Identify a specific instrument for each of the following areas: 
   • Ability or aptitude testing.
   • Occupational career or interests.
   • Personality.
2. Discuss one advantage and one disadvantage in selecting these tests for the battery.
3. Identify at least one issue regarding factors of utility and utility analysis with this battery of tests.
4. Include how you would evaluate the effectiveness of incorporating your measures into this battery. How would you determine that the three tests are adequate for addressing the purposes of selection, placement, promotion, and career training?

Include, in your discussion, if and how computerized assessment could be incorporated into your battery or evaluation.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one other learner.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

• Explain how testing may have utility in settings of use. 
• Analyze applications of testing for different purposes and populations.
• Apply writing and citations skills appropriate for doctoral-level learners. 

Studies

Key Concepts

Review Unit 10 Key Concepts [PDF].

Readings

Use your Psychological Testing and Assessment text to read the following:

• Chapter 15, Assessment, Careers, and Business,” pages 524–566.

Use your Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing text to read the following:​

• Chapter 11, “Workplace Testing and Credentialing,” pages 169–182.
• Chapter 13, “Uses of Tests for Program Evaluation, Policy Studies, and Accountability,” pages 203–210.

Use the Capella library to read the following:

• Thornton, G. C., III., & Gibbons, A. M. (2009). Validity of assessment centers for personnel selection. Human Resource Management Review, 19(3), 169–187.

Media

Complete the following Capella multimedia:

• Timeline of Program Evaluation.
• Program Evaluation: Experiences. 
  • Listen to three practitioners sharing their experiences.
• Leadership Self-Assessment.
• Workplace Values Card Sort.

Case Evaluation

Purpose

This assignment supports your expression of knowledge, targeting the basic concepts, theories, and techniques discussed in the course.  Presented below is a case study.  For this assignment you will develop and present your analysis. Your analysis will include: early thoughts on diagnosis, an accounting of the key symptoms presented, an acknowledgment of the client’s strengths and areas for growth, and potential treatment goals for the client. You will conclude the intake analysis by discussing areas to explore with the client at the next visit.

Client: Carl

Carl is a 37-year-old male who, during his intake visit, communicates he is experiencing a variety of life stressors. As you take notes, the following list is recorded:

change in weight, an increase of 25 pounds

trouble sleeping, primarily interrupted sleep and occasional sleeplessness

low energy

varied eating – periods of not feeling hungry followed by increased eating

irritability and moodiness

anxiety

decreased sexual desire

self-esteem – decreasing

feelings of guilty – economic challenges have resulted in significant income losses

Carl has been married to his partner for eleven years. The marriage has experienced challenges, but is relatively happy and intact. Carl’s partner is an entrepreneur with many irons in the fire, and whose drive contributes to the business’s success and a healthy income ($185,000). Like Carl, his partner must reinvest the majority of their income back into their business ventures. Recent economic shifts have put pressure on the couple’s shrinking savings and investments, and on the upper-middle income lifestyle the two have become accustomed (buying and engaging in desired activities without much worry).

Carl holds a master’s degree from University of Virginia, Darden School of Business. He pursued and obtained his MBA with the goal of establishing his own business. He has a receptionist who works remotely from home on an hourly basis, and one full-time employee. Carl recently made the move from the home office, shared with his partner, to a new office space that has room for his employees. The office is well sized, and includes a conference space where clients can meet. His client list has expanded, but Carl is experiencing difficulties getting clients to pay within the 45-day billing period specified when invoiced for services rendered.  As a result, Carl is often forced to pay his contracted account a service fee to prompt clients for payment.

Carl pays the accountant’s fee because he requires a steady cash flow to pay his employees, pay bills, and meet family responsibilities. The health insurance premium he pays for his family is high (over $1400 per month) due to a pre-existing health condition (his partner has a chronic condition). Additionally, he pays the health insurance premium for his full-time employee. Carl’s partner willingly, and lovingly, paid the family healthcare premium on their plan for over two years at a monthly cost of $1,700.

Carl took over the healthcare premium four years ago, as he felt that his partner had carried that monthly burden alone while he built up his client base. His partner also covered expenses Carl was not able to pay while he attended graduate school and established his business.  During the intake visit, Carl shares that he could not have pursued his business endeavors without his partner’s support (financial and otherwise). He believes that this has created tension in his relationship with his partner, particularly during the current economic downturn.

Carl and his partner have three children, ages 2, 5, and 8. All are healthy, intelligent, fun-loving, and well-mannered, per his reporting. At the time of his visit, Carl has no concerns regarding the little ones. His partner works doggedly to contribute to the finances and to attend to the children. While Carl works most days from 7 a.m. to all hours of the evening, his partner “does it all,” making $185,000 and being a stay-at-home parent.

Carl feels that his partner’s deteriorating physical well-being is the result of this effort to do it all – being there for him and the children. While his partner does not express dissatisfaction, Carl feels (in his words, “understands”) that his partner must feel resentment toward him for the non-stop, around the clock, work he must dedicate to his business. As the funds in their savings has shrunk, Carl feels his personal state has deteriorated, physically, emotionally, professionally, and personally.

Carl concludes his intake visit expressing he needs help.  He needs help regaining control in his life.  He wants your help to develop a strategy for reversing this downward spiral.

Your Task:

Review Carl’s case and give a preliminary diagnosis using the knowledge gained in this course.  Relevant diagnostic criteria can be found in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10 link), and the Study Guide to DSM-5.  You may find useful, as a supplement, the sequential presentation of disorders found in Lumen Learning Abnormal Psychology,  https://courses.lumenlearning.com/abnormalpsycholo… . (Caveat – the Lumen Learning resource uses DSM-IV-TR criteria with DSM-V revision summaries.  Updates and changes within the DSM-V discussed in this course should be taken into consideration, should they apply.)

Answering the following six items, provide evidence of your logic for each decision.  Reinforce responses with scholarly resources and appropriate detailing. Discuss how and why your arrived at conclusions drawn. See rubric for depth and detail expectations. 

Develop your analysis in an organized, well-developed 5 to 7-page paper.

Required Items to be Addressed (scored):

Based upon this intake visit, what diagnosis do you think is most appropriate for Carl? Be mindful, this is your first session. Information is limited to the data collected in this first visit. (12.5 points)

What are the principal symptoms contributing to the diagnosis proposed? Clearly explain, providing details. (12.5 points)

Discuss Carl’s strengths. These will facilitate constructive work with him. (10 points)

Delineate Carl’s opportunities for growth and/or improvement. (10 points)

Looking to the next visit and beyond, what is your preliminary sketch of the treatment goals you have for Carl? Why do you identify these goals as appropriate for Carl?  (10 points)

What will you explore with Carl in future visits (e.g., interpersonal, aspirations)? Present rational.  Why do you want to this information? (10 point)

Communications (scored):  Writing mechanics (i.e., spelling, grammar, organization) (5 points); APA Style (5 points). In-text and reference list citations need to be in APA style formatting.

This worksheet provides you with experience in calculating (by hand or using Microsoft®Excel®) the formulas from the weekly readings. Using these formulas and performing these calculations will provide you with an understanding of how and why statistical formulas work and what they mean. This worksheet also provides you the opportunity to interpret results in the context of specific problems, which will assist you in critically evaluating current research in your field. Please type your answers directly onto the worksheet. Copy and paste any requested output, charts or graphs right into your worksheet.