How were the questions chosen?
Dr. Bradberry and Dr. Greaves, with years of subject matter expertise and applied assessment development experience, developed a pool of questions for each of the four skill scales. The authors used an iterative process of writing draft questions and reworking them to ensure they passed the test of being both “necessary and sufficient.” The term necessary refers to all questions that are required to measure a skill and the term sufficient refers to only those questions that are required to measure the skill. In other words, no extra questions were added to the test and no questions that were required were missing from the test. Once the set of questions met the face validity criteria, they were presented to other subject matter experts, including Ph.D. and Master’s trained industrial/organizational psychology practitioners and MBA level business people with management experience. First, questions were removed that did not contribute to the face validity of the test as determined by the
