ABSTRACT
The Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures establishes ideals and sets forth expectations for the validation process and the professional administration of selection procedures. The Standards in particular and the Principles to a lesser extent have potential relevance to settings outside of employment selection. In a revision completed by a subsequent joint committee in 1974, the document title was changed to Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests. "The purpose of the Standards is to provide criteria for the development and evaluation of tests and testing practices and to provide guidelines for assessing the validity of interpretations of test scores for the intended test uses". However, if a selection procedure comprised a cognitive measure and a test of interpersonal skills, and there were two job performance indices, a lack of relationship between the cognitive measure and teamwork would provide discriminant evidence.
