InGRID Expert workshop New skills new jobs: Tools for harmonising the measurement of occupations’ February Job Knowledge Based Personnel Selection, Training, and Curriculum Diagnostics Stefan Mol Center of Job Knowledge Research

Content Related Validity Construct Related Validity Criterion Related Validity

“…people who are more intelligent learn more job knowledge and learn it faster, the major determinant of job performance is not GMA but job knowledge” (Schmidt and Hunter, 2001). Job Knowledge GMAJob knowledge Job Performance

“Validity is nearly twice as high for job specific tests than for of the-shelf tests. In fact, the levels for locally developed tests appear to rival those of general ability tests” (Dye, Reck & McDaniel, 1993,p. 156). ρ=.62, k =59, N=3965 Job Knowledge GMAJob knowledge Job Performance

Job Knowledge Job Performance Specificity Substantiation Job Knowledge Specificity

Center of Job Knowledge Research Why CJKR? Because job knowledge… Is among the most important yet least understood individual level drivers of the knowledge economy Is imperative to successfully match people to jobs but largely neglected in personnel selection research Is an ultimate outcome against which both education and training must be evaluated Is a means to ensure public spending on education enhances graduates’ opportunities, fit, and accomplishment on the labor market

Unequivocally Job Specific (albeit more portable for more related occupations) Undeniably Job General Job Specific – Job General Job Specific – Job General Job Knowledge Job Performance GMA Education

A personnel selection and training platform that takes an individualized approach to the assessment and development of job knowledge of ICT Systems analysts

Transfer of innovation: Development of job knowledge test and training platform for nurses

OntoTech Extending portfolio of ICT Job Knowledge Tests for purposes of curriculum diagnostics and development

UvAInform Learning analytics is “the measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs” (SOLAR 2012). Internal UvA project aimed at the pan-university development of an educational data informed goal setting interface.

GITP Randstad Holding ECORYS Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT) Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB) Ericsson European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND) Netpositive University of Alicante (UAL) Wageindicator

Job Knowledge as Matchmaker Connecting: – HRM, eLearning, Knowledge Management, Labour Economics (foster collaboration) – Academia and industry (Science and practice) – Employees and workplaces (Enhanced Matching) – Policy and Education (Training) – Government and Labor Market (Needs analysis)

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