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  • 1.  general cognitive ability measure?

    Posted 01-31-2014 14:54
    Hello all,
     
    I am looking for a free and short (15 minutes or less) measure of general cognitive ability to use in my dissertation research.  I had considered using one of Wonderlic's measures but do not have the resources and time required.  If anyone has any recommendations for me on other measures I might be able to use (including the scoring), I would greatly appreciate them.
     
    Best regards,
     
    Meredith Woodwark
     
     
    Meredith J. Woodwark, MBA
    PhD Candidate, Organizational Behaviour
    PhD Association Past President/Ombuds
    Ivey Business School at Western University
    1151 Richmond Street North, Office 0N54
    London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
    c. 519.870.0744
    ivey.ca
     
    Sample concepts like hors d'oeuvres and eat the questions for dessert.
     
     
     


  • 2.  general cognitive ability measure?

    Posted 02-03-2014 12:32
    Hi Meredith,

    One measure you might consider is the 10-item vocabulary test used in the General Social Survey (GSS). It is based on work by Robert Thorndike. The test is easily found with some Googling - it is not available via the GSS website, but to my understanding it is not because of copyright reasons but so that future respondents don't have access to the questions and answers before responding. Basically, each question provides the respondent with a word and 5 possible answer choices. The respondent must then choose which of the 5 choices is most like the word presented in the question. Note that using such a short test is convenient, but will typically yield low reliability (if I recall correctly, in the GSS the KR-20 is slightly above .50 - I can send you a document off-list with information on the psychometrics of the test) and might not be construct valid given the lack of a test for other commonly measured sub-dimensions of cognitive ability (e.g., spatial reasoning, math). However, depending on your purposes, it might still be useful.

    Erik Gonzalez-Mulé
    Management & Organizations Ph.D. Candidate
    Henry B. Tippie College of Business
    W349 Pappajohn Business Bldg
    The University of Iowa
    Iowa City, IA 52242- 1994
    319-335-1814
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] on behalf of Woodwark, Meredith [mwoodwark.phd@IVEY.CA]
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    Subject: [OB-LIST] general cognitive ability measure?

    Hello all,
     
    I am looking for a free and short (15 minutes or less) measure of general cognitive ability to use in my dissertation research.  I had considered using one of Wonderlic's measures but do not have the resources and time required.  If anyone has any recommendations for me on other measures I might be able to use (including the scoring), I would greatly appreciate them.
     
    Best regards,
     
    Meredith Woodwark
     
     
    Meredith J. Woodwark, MBA
    PhD Candidate, Organizational Behaviour
    PhD Association Past President/Ombuds
    Ivey Business School at Western University
    1151 Richmond Street North, Office 0N54
    London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
    c. 519.870.0744
    ivey.ca
     
    Sample concepts like hors d'oeuvres and eat the questions for dessert.
     
     
     


  • 3.  general cognitive ability measure?

    Posted 02-04-2014 09:50
    A colleague of mine wrote an article that uses several measures of cognitive ability (S. Carter, HRDQ, 2002). I have listed them below, but you can read her paper to see how she used them and why.

    Wschler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-R)
    Differential Aptitude Test
    Guilford-Zimmerman Aptitude Survey
    Wonderlic Personnel Test

    There are many more listed in Tests in Print (Mitchell, 1983) and Mental Measurements Yearbook (Buros, 1978-1993).

    Hope these help!

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    Subject: [OB-LIST] general cognitive ability measure?

    Hello all,

    I am looking for a free and short (15 minutes or less) measure of general cognitive ability to use in my dissertation research. I had considered using one of Wonderlic’s measures but do not have the resources and time required. If anyone has any recommendations for me on other measures I might be able to use (including the scoring), I would greatly appreciate them.

    Best regards,

    Meredith Woodwark


    Meredith J. Woodwark, MBA
    PhD Candidate, Organizational Behaviour
    PhD Association Past President/Ombuds
    [cid:678d67b6-a454-4a8f-a352-f2709f004055]
    Ivey Business School at Western University
    1151 Richmond Street North, Office 0N54
    London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
    c. 519.870.0744
    ivey.ca

    Sample concepts like hors d’oeuvres and eat the questions for dessert.


  • 4.  general cognitive ability measure?

    Posted 02-06-2014 15:04
    A 10 item vocabulary test or any short test tapping a specific ability is not a general cognitive ability test. If you want the test to be general you should have at least three specific abilities. It is general cognitive ability that drives most prediction and not specific abilities.

    There is a form of the GATB available for public use on the O*Net site. Here is the link: http://www.onetcenter.org/dl_tools/AP_zips/AP-Instr-deskv.pdf   It contains scales from the GATB but they renamed the test as the Ability Profiler.

    Combining Part 1 -Arithmetic reasoning, Part 2 - Vocabulary, and Part 3 - Three Dimensional Space would give a reasonable measure of general cognitive ability.  The test would need to be proctored so that a calculator is not used for the numerical reasoning and a dictionary is not used for the vocabulary test.  You could add Parts 4, 5 & 6 as additional tests. They are g-loaded but their g-saturation is less than Parts 1, 2, & 3. Tests 5 & 6 are best classified as perception; they are, g-loaded but not as g-loaded as Parts 1 through 3.

    Best wishes,

    Mike




    On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gonzalez-Mule, Erik <erik-gonzalez-mule@uiowa.edu> wrote:
    Hi Meredith,

    One measure you might consider is the 10-item vocabulary test used in the General Social Survey (GSS). It is based on work by Robert Thorndike. The test is easily found with some Googling - it is not available via the GSS website, but to my understanding it is not because of copyright reasons but so that future respondents don't have access to the questions and answers before responding. Basically, each question provides the respondent with a word and 5 possible answer choices. The respondent must then choose which of the 5 choices is most like the word presented in the question. Note that using such a short test is convenient, but will typically yield low reliability (if I recall correctly, in the GSS the KR-20 is slightly above .50 - I can send you a document off-list with information on the psychometrics of the test) and might not be construct valid given the lack of a test for other commonly measured sub-dimensions of cognitive ability (e.g., spatial reasoning, math). However, depending on your purposes, it might still be useful.

    Erik Gonzalez-Mulé
    Management & Organizations Ph.D. Candidate
    Henry B. Tippie College of Business
    W349 Pappajohn Business Bldg
    The University of Iowa
    Iowa City, IA 52242- 1994
    319-335-1814
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] on behalf of Woodwark, Meredith [mwoodwark.phd@IVEY.CA]
    Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 1:53 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] general cognitive ability measure?

    Hello all,
     
    I am looking for a free and short (15 minutes or less) measure of general cognitive ability to use in my dissertation research.  I had considered using one of Wonderlic’s measures but do not have the resources and time required.  If anyone has any recommendations for me on other measures I might be able to use (including the scoring), I would greatly appreciate them.
     
    Best regards,
     
    Meredith Woodwark
     
     
    Meredith J. Woodwark, MBA
    PhD Candidate, Organizational Behaviour
    PhD Association Past President/Ombuds
    Ivey Business School at Western University
    1151 Richmond Street North, Office 0N54
    London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
     
    Sample concepts like hors d’oeuvres and eat the questions for dessert.
     
     
     



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    Michael A. McDaniel, Ph.D.
    Professor - Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, 
    Department of Management, 
    Research Professor, Department of Psychology
    Virginia Commonwealth University
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  • 5.  general cognitive ability measure?

    Posted 02-07-2014 05:50
    Hi Mike:

    Cannot agree more with you. I have oftentimes see researchers use a measure of vocabulary to suggest that they are controlling for cognitive ability; of course, they are not and a vocabulary measure is a measure of crystallized and not fluid intelligence. Also interesting too aspects of crystallized intelligence can remain intact even when damage has been sustained to areas of the brain that drive fluid intelligence.  Thus, if anything one should at a minimum control for fluid ability.

    For those interested, see:
    Duncan, J., Emslie, H., Williams, P., Johnson, R., & Freer, C. 1996. Intelligence and the frontal lobe: The organization of goal-directed behavior. Cognitive Psychology, 30(3): 257-303.

    Wood, R. L. & Liossi, C. 2007. The relationship between general intellectual ability and performance on ecologically valid executive tests in a severe brain injury sample. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13: 90−98.

    For a discussion on practical implications of these issues (applied to measures of emotional intelligence, when tested against general intelligence), you may be interested in this:

    Antonakis, J., Ashkanasy, N. M., & Dasborough, M. T. 2009. Does leadership need emotional intelligence? The Leadership Quarterly, 20(2): 247-261.

    Best,
    J.
    __________________________________________  John Antonakis Professor of Organizational Behavior Director, Ph.D. Program in Management  Faculty of Business and Economics University of Lausanne Internef #618 CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny Switzerland Tel ++41 (0)21 692-3438 Fax ++41 (0)21 692-3305 http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jantonakis  Associate Editor:  The Leadership Quarterly Organizational Research Methods  __________________________________________
    On 06.02.2014 21:04, Michael A McDaniel wrote:
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    A 10 item vocabulary test or any short test tapping a specific ability is not a general cognitive ability test. If you want the test to be general you should have at least three specific abilities. It is general cognitive ability that drives most prediction and not specific abilities.

    There is a form of the GATB available for public use on the O*Net site. Here is the link: http://www.onetcenter.org/dl_tools/AP_zips/AP-Instr-deskv.pdf   It contains scales from the GATB but they renamed the test as the Ability Profiler.

    Combining Part 1 -Arithmetic reasoning, Part 2 - Vocabulary, and Part 3 - Three Dimensional Space would give a reasonable measure of general cognitive ability.  The test would need to be proctored so that a calculator is not used for the numerical reasoning and a dictionary is not used for the vocabulary test.  You could add Parts 4, 5 & 6 as additional tests. They are g-loaded but their g-saturation is less than Parts 1, 2, & 3. Tests 5 & 6 are best classified as perception; they are, g-loaded but not as g-loaded as Parts 1 through 3.

    Best wishes,

    Mike




    On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Gonzalez-Mule, Erik <erik-gonzalez-mule@uiowa.edu> wrote:
    Hi Meredith,

    One measure you might consider is the 10-item vocabulary test used in the General Social Survey (GSS). It is based on work by Robert Thorndike. The test is easily found with some Googling - it is not available via the GSS website, but to my understanding it is not because of copyright reasons but so that future respondents don't have access to the questions and answers before responding. Basically, each question provides the respondent with a word and 5 possible answer choices. The respondent must then choose which of the 5 choices is most like the word presented in the question. Note that using such a short test is convenient, but will typically yield low reliability (if I recall correctly, in the GSS the KR-20 is slightly above .50 - I can send you a document off-list with information on the psychometrics of the test) and might not be construct valid given the lack of a test for other commonly measured sub-dimensions of cognitive ability (e.g., spatial reasoning, math). However, depending on your purposes, it might still be useful.

    Erik Gonzalez-Mulé
    Management & Organizations Ph.D. Candidate
    Henry B. Tippie College of Business
    W349 Pappajohn Business Bldg
    The University of Iowa
    Iowa City, IA 52242- 1994
    319-335-1814
    From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv [OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] on behalf of Woodwark, Meredith [mwoodwark.phd@IVEY.CA]
    Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 1:53 PM
    To: OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [OB-LIST] general cognitive ability measure?

    Hello all,
     
    I am looking for a free and short (15 minutes or less) measure of general cognitive ability to use in my dissertation research.  I had considered using one of Wonderlic's measures but do not have the resources and time required.  If anyone has any recommendations for me on other measures I might be able to use (including the scoring), I would greatly appreciate them.
     
    Best regards,
     
    Meredith Woodwark
     
     
    Meredith J. Woodwark, MBA
    PhD Candidate, Organizational Behaviour
    PhD Association Past President/Ombuds
    Ivey Business School at Western University
    1151 Richmond Street North, Office 0N54
    London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
     
    Sample concepts like hors d'oeuvres and eat the questions for dessert.
     
     
     



    --
    Michael A. McDaniel, Ph.D.
    Professor - Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, 
    Department of Management, 
    Research Professor, Department of Psychology
    Virginia Commonwealth University
    301 West Main Street, PO Box 844000
    Richmond, VA 23284-4000
    voice: 804.827.0209