Scott Wesley

Agreement between committee-based and field-based job analyses: A study in the context of licensure testing.

The authors examined agreement between importance ratings used in job analysis. The ratings were obtained from small committees of content experts and from field-survey respondents. Three measures of agreement were used: a relative index (product-moment correlation), an absolute index (intraclass correlation), and a dichotomous index (cutpoint). Data were obtained from 2 job analysis studies conducted for purposes of developing teacher-licensure tests in Spanish and in chemistry. In both studies there was a high level of agreement as measured by the relative and dichotomous indexes and a moderately high level of agreement as measured by the absolute index. The implications of these findings for job analysts and test developers are discussed