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Dan Biddle, Ph.D. and Stacy L. Bell-Pilchard, M.S. recently published Testing in the Fire Service Industry: A Handbook for Developing Balanced and Defensible Assessments.  It provides steps that will help ensure that your public safety selection procedures are developed in a fair and valid manner.  In addition, the authors give step-by-step guidelines on how to complete a defensible validation study using court-endorsed methodologies.

Book features include:

• Up-to-date information on EEO testing in the fire service industry
• Identification of testing issues that will likely trigger a lawsuit
• Steps on validating tests using content and criterion-related validity
• Results from a national study which reveal the key competencies that should be measured to identify successful firefighter candidates
• Appropriate uses of test results
• Detailed description of validating a physical ability test for candidates and incumbents
• Checklists to use for evaluating the validity of pre-employment and promotional selection assessments

Visit http://fpsi.com/fire-service-testing-book.html to purchase Testing in the Fire Service Industry: A Handbook for Developing Balanced and Defensible Assessments by Dan A. Biddle, Ph.D. and Stacy L. Bell-Pilchard.  ISBN: 978-0-7414-7349-3

About the Authors:

Daniel A. Biddle, Ph.D. Dan is the CEO of Fire & Police Selection, Inc. (FPSI), a firm dedicated to providing fair and defensible testing solutions to the protective services industry. Dan is also the CEO of Biddle Consulting Group, Inc., (BCG), a consulting firm specializing in the areas of test development and validation, Equal Employment Opportunity compliance, and Human Resource software development. Dan has over 20 years of experience in the EEO analysis and test validation fields.

Stacy L. Bell-Pilchard, M.S. Stacy is the Executive Vice President of Fire & Police Selection, Inc. (FPSI). Stacy has a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and 15 years of experience in the field. She is an expert at developing and validating tests and measures for pre-employment and promotional processes with the protective services industry and is the project manager of all test development and validation studies conducted at FPSI.

Contact information for Fire & Police Selection, Inc.:

Fire & Police Selection, Inc.
193 Blue Ravine, Suite 270
Folsom, CA 95630
U.S.A
800.990.3473

www.FPSI.com

At this year’s AONE Annual Meeting & Exposition, Dr. Dan Biddle, Ph.D., CEO of Biddle Consulting Group and expert in employment testing & validation, co-hosted a session with James Ostmann, Sr. R.N., M.B.A. and Chief Nursing Officer at Prophecy Healthcare. Together they presented “How to Build the Ideal Nurse Hiring Assessment.”

Last week, Dr. Jim Kuthy spoke to members of the Personnel Testing Council of Northern California during a monthly training forum held at the Department of Justice in Sacramento.

Jim’s presentation, Performance Appraisals and Terminations: Best Practices, discussed one of the most highly contested areas of litigation – employees who have been terminated based solely on their poor performance. In today’s economy, it’s known that the odds of court litigation have dramatically increased as the number of jobs available has decreased. Jim’s timely session focused on court-accepted practices that are more likely to result in performance-based termination decisions being upheld. Also, he highlighted those actions that employers should avoid when making termination decisions based on poor performance.

Here’s a short video excerpt:

 About Jim Kuthy, Principal Consultant, Biddle Consulting Group:

Jim Kuthy is distinguished by being both a personnel assessment specialist as well as a former law enforcement officer in two states. He is the author of Biddle Consulting Group’s CritiCall Dispatcher/Telecommunicator Pre-Employment Selection Software and conducted its nationwide validation study. He also serves as an equal employment opportunity consultant for the firm’s court cases. He has a M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Akron in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, which has been consistently rated as one of the top ten schools in the country for this specialty area. He has also served as a test consultant to an International Chiefs of Police association and has assisted in the development of validated employment tests nationwide.

LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimkuthy

About the Personnel Testing Council of Northern California:

PTC/NC provides a forum for over 150 public and private-sector professionals in personnel assessment and selection to network with other professionals and discuss the latest legal, technical, and practical issues surrounding personnel assessment and selection. They hold monthly lunch-time seminars and an annual conference featuring top professionals in the fields of human resources, management, and industrial/organizational psychology.

Learn more about the PTC/NC by visiting them online at http://ptcnc.org.