Test-Wiseness Training: An Investigation of the Impact of Test-Wiseness in an Employment Setting
Year: 2005
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: The current study examined ethnic group differences in test-wiseness and the extent to which test-wiseness training may eliminate these differences in a sample of 87 firefighters from three different metropolitan areas.As part of a larger eight hour training program on assessment centers, subjects were given two measures to assess their level of test-wiseness (learning and behavior pretests).Subjects were then instructed on test-wise strategies involving item construction.Following this training, subjects were given a measure to assess their reactions to the training program as well as two post-test measures (learning and behavior).The current research revealed that there were no significant differences between whites and African Americans on the pre-test Learning measure and the pre-test Behavior measure.While overall, training had a positive impact on subjects' abilities to identify the test-wiseness cues on the Learning measure with subjects showing a significant improvement, subjects showed only marginal improvements on the Behavior measure.In addition, rather than diminishing group differences, test-wiseness training appeared to have no significant race by training effect on the Learning measure and appeared to exacerbate the differences between whites and African Americans on the Behavior measure.
Author: Susan Elizabeth Houston
Institution: University of Akron
Language: English
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2601195337