Question 8.19

8.19 Testing job applicants. The law requires that tests given to job applicants must be shown to be directly job related. The Department of Labor believes that an employment test called the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) is valid for a broad range of jobs. As in the case of the SAT, blacks and Hispanics get lower average scores on the GATB than do whites. Describe briefly what must be done to establish that the GATB has predictive validity as a measure of future performance on the job.