CSB RELATED PROBLEMS WITH CRITERION CONTAMINATION AND CRITERION DEFICIENC ... PROBLEMS OF CRITERION CONTAMINATION; A measure will be Criterion Contaminated to the extent that scores can be influenced by increasing factors that are not part of the Ultimate Criterion.
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Figure 1 represents these Ultimate and Actual Criterion Measures as two overlapping circles, and identifies the three resulting sectors as Criterion Contamination, Criterion Relevance, and Criterion Deficiency.
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Criterion contamination exists whenever nonperformance factors influence the job performance scores assigned to individuals (Borman, 1991). These nonperformance factors can take the form of a systematic bias such as leniency effects, or can be random, such as measurement error (Muchinsky, 1995;
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Criterion contamination and criterion deficiency are illustrated by training criteria, whose weaknesses were acknowledged by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense—Force Management and Personnel (1987). Training grades, which are based largely on written tests of cognitive knowledge about the job,
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Criterion contamination is the set of subjects that score high in actual criteria, yet still have a low degree of the conceptual criteria. ...
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Measurement of depression and other mood states in pain patients has been criticised in recent years on the grounds that most questionnaires were not developed in pain populations and suffer from criterion contamination by somatic items. ... The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology...
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Criterion Contamination – extraneous variables included in the criteria that were not part of training program. Opportunity bias – some individuals might ...
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Criterion contamination has been described in responses of patients with rheumatoid arthritis on many widely-used depression scales, including the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Index (CES-D).
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2. Define criterion contamination, deficiency, and relevance. ... Contamination: part of the actual criterion that reflects something other than intended, Deficiency: part of the theoretical criterion that the actual criterion fails to assess, Relevance: extent to which the actual criterion assesses the theoretical.
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