Faking on a situational judgment test in a medical school selection setting: Effect of different scoring methods?

We examined the occurrence of faking on a rating situational judgment test (SJT) by comparing SJT scores and response styles of the same individuals across two naturally occurring situations. An SJT for medical school selection was administered twice to the same group of applicants (N = 317) under l...

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Published inInternational journal of selection and assessment Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 235 - 248
Main Authors de Leng, W. E., Stegers‐Jager, K. M., Born, M. Ph, Themmen, A. P. N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2019
Subjects
Entrance examinations
extreme responding
faking
high‐stakes selection
Responses
scoring methods
Selection
situational judgment test
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Summary:We examined the occurrence of faking on a rating situational judgment test (SJT) by comparing SJT scores and response styles of the same individuals across two naturally occurring situations. An SJT for medical school selection was administered twice to the same group of applicants (N = 317) under low‐stakes (T1) and high‐stakes (T2) circumstances. The SJT was scored using three different methods that were differentially affected by response tendencies. Applicants used significantly more extreme responding on T2 than T1. Faking (higher SJT score on T2) was only observed for scoring methods that controlled for response tendencies. Scoring methods that do not control for response tendencies introduce systematic error into the SJT score, which may lead to inaccurate conclusions about the existence of faking.
ISSN:0965-075X
1468-2389
DOI:10.1111/ijsa.12251