Business Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Publication Title
Personality and Individual Differences
Keywords
Organizational Behavior
Disciplines
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Abstract
Elementary cognitive tasks (ECTs) are typically used in laboratory settings for basic research on the structure of intelligence. More recently, ECTs have been shown to predict important educational and clinical outcomes. Here we found that ECTs possess both criterion and incremental validity over IQ and the graduate management admission test (GMAT) as predictors of (N = 116) MBA student grades and scores on a capstone exam. Validity coefficients for the ECTs ranged from 0.24 to 0.50. A median split on an ECT component showed that the best-performing ECT group had substantially higher grades, exam scores, IQs and GMAT scores. The inspection time ECT possessed significant incremental validity over both IQ and the GMAT. ECTs could therefore be promising additions to the arsenal of assessment techniques currently used in predicting important real-world outcomes.
Recommended Citation
Pesta, B., Poznanski, P. (2009). The inspection time and over-claiming tasks as predictors of MBA student performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(2), pp. 236-240.
DOI
10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.005
Version
Postprint
Publisher's Statement
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 2, (2009); 10.1016/j.paid.2008.10.005
Creative Commons License
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Volume
46
Issue
2
