ABSTRACT
Situational judgment tests present applicants with scenarios that they might encounter on the job and ask applicants to evaluate various actions that might be taken in response to the situations. Thus, situational judgment tests are one type of job simulation that measures job knowledge. They rely on the principle that a person’s behavior in past situations can predict how that individual is likely to behave in similar situations in the future. This means that one way to predict how effectively job applicants will perform on the job when they become employees is to measure how effectively they perform in a simulation of the job when they are applicants. People vary in the extent to which they acquire job knowledge from a series of events, and situational judgment tests are a method of assessing such differences.
