SOME BACKGROUND ABOUT EMPLOYER NEEDS

If you are an employer with 15 or more workers on the payroll, you are subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (41 CFR 60-3). The Uniform Guidelines require employers to test their employment data to assure themselves that they are not illegally discriminating against a group of people based on race, sex, age, religion, or some other protected category.

Furthermore, employers are required to "prove" that their employment processes do not illegally discriminate. Any employment selection device such as a written test or job interview is subject to scrutiny under the Uniform Guidelines.

Two things are very important about statistical analysis:
(1) Knowing what data to use in the test, and
(2) Knowing what analytical formulae to use in the test.

HOW TVAP^tm CAN HELP YOU

For Novice Users: The Test Validation & Analysis Program^tm (TVAP^tm) includes a step-by-step walk through the test validation and analysis process. Complex statistical calculations are reduced to color-coded cells making interpretation simple.

For Advanced Users: TVAP seamlessly integrates the entire process into one program and, because the program operates in Microsoft^R Excel^R, integrating custom features is a simple process.

TVAP Program Includes:

• Installation CD with Highly-Integrated TVAP Excel Workbook Programs
• Test Validation Survey (for SMEs to rate test items)
• Instruction Manual for Completing the Test Validation Survey
• Test Item writing Guidelines
• Instructions for Conducting an Effective Angoff Panel for Setting Cutoff Scores

The programs include new statistical procedures recommended by the latest professional testing standards (1999):

• Decision Consistency Reliability
• Conditional Standard Error of Measurement

TVAP conducts item analysis, item bias evaluation, and calculates three cutoff score options to address the U.S. v. South Carolina Supreme Court ruling.

TVAP analyzes reliability, effectiveness, and adverse impact of each of the three cutoff score options and provides charts to review results by various groups.

System Requirements

• CD-ROM drive for installation
• PC with Pentium III
• 256 MB RAM minimum (512 MB RAM recommended)
• 150 MB available hard disk space
• Super VGA with: 800 X 600 resolution minimum (1024 X 768 or higher recommended)
• Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
• Microsoft Office 2000 or higher

This product allows you to avoid the math. Expert statisticians have already done that work for you. All you have to do is input your data for the employment event(s) you wish to test. It's that simple.

HERE'S HOW THIS PRODUCT IS SOLD ...

You will receive a CD-ROM containing all the formulas and tests discussed above. They will be imbedded in formatted Excel spreadsheets so you have an easy visual display of your input and the output. It is also easy to print your results.

Each CD-ROM carries a license for unlimited use of its content on one computer (PC) at one location (site). You can analyze employee movement data from as many sites as you wish, as long as you do it on the one PC where your Test Validation & Analysis Programtm is installed. Installing the software on more than one machine will require purchasing additional licenses.