ABSTRACT

The research literature on dimension-based assessment centers (ACs) is voluminous: at least 10 books, scores of book chapters, hundreds of published articles, countless doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses, regular presentations at conferences and workshops around the world, and untold numbers of technical and unpublished reports. PsycINFO currently lists 522 works with assessment centers in the title, and surely many other publications deal with the method. More recent publications have emerged which we will weave into this review. To do justice to this huge body of research, we have chosen to focus our coverage on evidence of the validity of dimension-based ACs for three main purposes.