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Both General Domain Knowledge and Situation Assessment Are Needed To Better Understand How SJTs Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2016

Jinyan Fan ,
Melissa Stuhlman ,
Lijun Chen  and
Qingxiong Weng
Jinyan Fan*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
Melissa Stuhlman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Auburn University
Lijun Chen
Affiliation:
College of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
Qingxiong Weng
Affiliation:
School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jinyan Fan, Department of Psychology, Auburn University, 225 Thach Hall, Auburn, AL 36849. E-mail: [email protected]
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Although Lievens and Motowidlo (2016) made a strong case for reconceptualizing situational judgment tests (SJTs) as measures of general domain knowledge, we disagree with their view that the judgment or assessment of the situation itself is not important. We contend that situation assessment is an integral yet ignored factor in SJTs and that both general domain knowledge and situation assessment are needed to better understand how SJTs work.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 43 - 47
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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