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SJTs as Measures of General Domain Knowledge for Multimedia Formats: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Bobby Naemi ,
Michelle Martin-Raugh  and
Harrison Kell
Bobby Naemi*
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, Washington, DC
Michelle Martin-Raugh
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, San Francisco, California
Harrison Kell
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bobby Naemi, Educational Testing Service, 1800 K Street, NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20006. E-mail: bnaemi@ets.org
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Lievens and Motowidlo (2016) present a case for situational judgment tests (SJTs) to be conceptualized as measures of general domain knowledge, which the authors define as knowledge of the effectiveness of general domains such as integrity, conscientiousness, and prosocial behaviors in different jobs. This argument comes from work rooted in the use of SJTs as measures of implicit trait policies (Motowidlo & Beier, 2010; Motowidlo, Hooper, & Jackson, 2006), measured with a format described as a “single response SJT” (Kell, Motowidlo, Martin, Stotts, & Moreno, 2014; Motowidlo, Crook, Kell, & Naemi, 2009). Given evidence that SJTs can be used as measures of general domain knowledge, the focal article concludes with a suggestion that general knowledge can be measured not only by traditional text-based or paper-and-pencil SJTs but also through varying alternate formats, including multimedia SJTs and interactive SJTs.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 77 - 83
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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