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FOREWORD
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is pleased to offer the fifth edition of the Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures, which was approved by the APA Council of Representatives in August 2018 as an authoritative guidelines document for employee selection testing and an official statement of the APA. Over a three-year period, the Principles Revision Committee updated this document from the fourth edition to be consistent with the 2014 Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, invited commentary from SIOP and APA that informed subsequent revisions, and solicited a thorough legal review.
The Principles Revisions Committee was chaired by Nancy Tippins, PhD, and Paul Sackett, PhD, and its members included Winfred Arthur, PhD; Tanya Delaney, PhD; Eric Dunleavy, PhD; Ted Hayes, PhD; Leaetta Hough, PhD; Fred Oswald, PhD; Dan Putka, PhD; Ann Marie Ryan, PhD; and Neal Schmitt, PhD. Collectively, the committee devoted an enormous number of hours to the revision to ensure that the fifth edition of the Principles reflects current research on, and best practices for, the development, validation, and implementation of employee selection procedures.
SIOP is indebted to the Principles Revision Committee and to the many members of SIOP and APA who provided commentary.
Nancy Tippins, PHD, and Paul Sackett, PHD Co-Chairs, SIOP Principles Revision Committee
Fred Oswald, PHD SIOP President, 2017–2018
INTRODUCTION
Statement of Purpose
The purpose of the Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures (hereafter referred to as the Principles) is to specify established scientific findings and generally accepted professional practice in the field of personnel selection psychology. These include the choice, development, evaluation, and use of personnel selection procedures designed to measure constructs related to work behavior, with a focus on the accuracy of the inferences that underlie personnel decisions. This document is the fifth edition of the Principles, which is the official statement of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Division 14 of the American Psychological Association [APA] and an organizational affiliate of the American Psychological Society [APS]) concerning validation and personnel selection. The revision is stimulated by theoretical and research developments since the previous edition of the Principles (SIOP, 2003) and by the publication of the Standards for Educational and Psychological...