4. Company A has two manufacturing plants, Plant X and Plant Y. They have create

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4. Company A has two manufacturing plants, Plant X and Plant Y. They have created a new high-tech manufacturing job class and several months ago, hired people to fill these positions in Plant Y. In order to develop a selection strategy for the job class to be used in Plant X, they obtain a sample of workers from Plant Y and have them take a test they created to screen applicants for the position. Then they correlate the test scores of these workers with their performance ratings. A. What type of validity study is being conducted? B. Name one alternative design they might have chosen and describe how it would have satisfied their need.

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A. This type of validity refers to concurrent validity, which is a type of criterion validity.

B. Another measure that could have been alternatively conducted was to have the high-tech manufacturing workers in Plant Y take the test immediately when they were recruited. After a few months of their work, their performance ratings would have been assessed. This would have been an indicator of predictive validity.

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