ABSTRACT
There are innumerable topics that could be covered under the heading “administering assessments and decision-making.” Rather than attempt a superfi cial coverage of a wide range of topics, we have chosen to focus our attention on two that are of particular relevance to the applied use of assessments in the workplace. The fi rst of these-unproctored Internet testing (UIT)—is a relatively recent phenomenon and one that not only has the potential to greatly expand the reach of valid professionally designed assessment but also to destroy valid assessment as we have known it in the pre-Internet world. The second issue we cover is not new. It involves the aggregation of assessment information for use by decision-makers. More specifi cally, it involves the knotty question of how to maximize accuracy/validity, yet not steal from the authority of decision-makers to make decisions. There is a thread that ties both issues together, and that is the how the nexus between scientifi cally tested practices and the requirements of managerial preference and decision-making can be merged to yield sound selection solutions.
