Validity of multiple ratings of business student performance in a management simulation

✍ Scribed by Jean M. McEnery; P. Nick Blanchard

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 979 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1044-8004
• DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.3920100206

✦ Synopsis

This study examined the reliability and validity of assessor, peer, and selfratings of management skills. The sample was made up of261 undetgraduate business students at a large midwestern university. An assessment center process was used to examine the skills of students in a management skills course using the Looking Glass simulation. Assessors were graduate students andfaculty. This study found a lack of convergent and divergent validity in assessor-peer ratings and assessor-self-ratings. However, convergent and divergent validity werefound in self-peer ratings. The conclusion is that peer and self-ratings may be very useful sources for developmental information under conditions of rater anonymity and when organizational rewards are not at stake.