Assessment terms beginning with U

This is a measurement glossary, not a general HR glossary. It covers the vocabulary that appears the moment you open a score report or challenge a vendor's claim — reliability, validity, norms, cut scores, item statistics and fairness analysis — because that is the vocabulary buyers are handed without explanation and the one that decides whether a number can carry a decision.

• Utility analysis

  Also called Selection utility, Brogden–Cronbach–Gleser model

  Utility analysis estimates the money a selection procedure adds, rather than its correlation with performance. The standard model multiplies the validity coefficient by the standard deviation of employee output value, by the average standardised score of the people hired and by how long they stay, then subtracts the cost of assessing every applicant.

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