How do I know if SACS, or any assessment tool, is legally defensible?
A. You only have to know how a tool was developed, and if it complies with one or more of the following regulatory bodies: • Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (Federal Register, 1978) • The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, 1985) • The Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc., 1987) These sources provide well-documented guidelines regarding the validity of testing. You can be confident that SACS is legally defensible because it was scientifically developed over the course of five years using empirical validation studies. We conduct ongoing empirical studies to maintain our high level of accuracy. And of course, SACS complies with the guidelines of all the appropriate regulatory bodies.
