How were the job incumbent work-photo images chosen?
(content validity) A. The authors obtained agreement from hundreds of jobholders, representing a broad spectrum of jobs, and photographed the defining element of their individual work environments. Over a period of time a number of vocational specialists agreed to independently assign a job title to each of these photographs. Only those photos with unanimous job title assignment were considered for placement in the prototype CareerFit-Test. There is a body of published research that shows even young children have the ability to describe the tasks a person is performing, using photo clues. The greater the variety of real-life worker contacts they have, the better their ability to recall those experiences, and the more detail they are capable of describing in those tasks. These theoretical and empirical recall findings form the rationale for this initial test construction approach. Q. How was the format of the test determined? A. After reviewing the literature of potential item response
