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yember 17, 1)7g
' he&lo?e Gibson.'
City Commissionary
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It i:; apparent fro:-, tho :information :=t'esranteel in t:h C'val:)-
ation that we are dealing with a Sophi:;t:Zebtec, test dc-vciopn.rft:
program, that the test battery improves the selection of candi•-
datc , ,ins i thi.t the of t]s,.. p.ro jrnt
Howeve:r, there are certain s:a• cii:ic which nee o }Ka
address_c1. V.,i^_r. t}i-!s3 ale cThd t: with „apprnpriately, thr. }'rogrz.z
will be able to better serve the City of :ii.ami Police Uel;artment
and the community at large.
�� � s ti' :• i l^ �+ ;:l ee obtained �s
Some areas in t•,�.iicY, i ,_ ro t;:. nt can b o �tain�.3 urn, the
following:
Academic Screening
This part of the exa7 measures abilities and s':il.ls which
arc directly related to actual job rocluir:::nents and this regr. ire-
r.ent involve.:, such language capabilities as ability to follow
verbal directions, recagni.:'ink; the n:_. nir. of cords, etc,
TheOdore Cibtbh
Page 2
NOvember 17, 1976
When considering that the Miati POlide DspartMent terVek A
bilingual community in t.:hich over 50t of the population t,peakS
Spanish, it would seem appropriate that this part of the exam
would, in some manner, take into consideration the bilingual
capabilities of th,a applicants.
Validity Screen
Itens in valith.ty scales aro susceptible to 2 A,ponozvi
to differently by pe-)pl-,, of difJ!erent. cultural bae-..gs, an..1
therefe-:2, the mellin;%; or scor.,.,.s in thasa
diLierent for members of different cultural yrcups. In the
under c.xlsider::::-ieri, I fiu-1. f
only 25 02 tit h-ac% for 1 =2d
as a screen passed It (as ce7p2):-dt '.5'1
Latin). This lo.; z.(71.1:.oriA
rather than intentirJn to distort resp. lt is fur
ponent o' th2 r:-,lestct;on :or
this 1.--1:•.sen (7)-
,,:'Ll-C:rY ia:.? *;'="'' '.r
each t,Lhnie/sex g:.-o6p" is of e::trcy..: „..;acte.luo„. r,,,..16. be.
a tssp pricriJ:y in ic:'7! tc-0-inj; '
Yh.71 fo-
again with re2,7(:,rent:c to thc:
f 1,1c-:n1
for su,...:c.:!sr;rul to I t e
naLfve t‘,12q v,,11 LL,,a
have ini:ernali2L!d the percept:ion of the white Afalrieans but,
tells us very littic, of what a good 1700.c1-7. or L;ltin orriec-'
would hJ like.
As a matter of fact, those ratirs- do not tell un rech el-Jel-
Wh4.it a goo:1 native L:lite Felice ofiz-e is like, sinc- :.ley only
provide us with "face validity," the veal:est type of validity.
In other words, the factors that incumbent police officers
perceive to be im:lprtnt in m:!king goopolice officer way be
influenced by preconeelved idea!: and expedtations, and Eay have
very little relation! -;hip with the very factors that have made
them succe:isful.
Finally, I find :::-yself in agreement with all but one of
the tions of t1r2 c..:ALLAticn te..1. The evaluation
team states, and appropriatoly so (page 43, 2n:1 FI:.!ragrap:1),
that "1.:inority group:-, often cio vell on writtc.n tents than
do non -minority groul, n2mbers." Howver, then th,.:.y proced to
rc.commend that "recruiting effotts c:In focus on attracting pre-
nantly high calli!Ir rinority ipili.viduals who are FTDrct Moly
to ,:core well," (vige 44) 3 find this recomenclAtion to .1)
clicice-h-ie-O-re7,, if I-1,e1 `;°-"-'7
se
.Theodore Gibson
Pane 3
W vember 17, 1976
traditional test situations is, as is generally accepted, n
artifact of the instrument, and not an indication of their
actual capabilities, then by restricting our selections to
those minority individuals who score at the same high levels
than native ;•;hit^;, i:-? art'. in f< .. t rogui Y'ing hi;The.. �, vc i.s Ci i'
ability from minority than for whim native
t' may.-• ve
Americans. This, ob�•iously, is no _ a f3 _1 u1 ion -1 c) the
problem. A ju3 L ? Lu~ icn would b to ob::..i.r!
norms for every ethnic group in the t.arq:-2t population, nd to
measuro ev,7.ry ind.Ll:._c ual' i score:.. i' y ": ;? I,i,.. `.. tan .:..:-» of h,i:a
or her own croup.
This 2' _co=e:-,.dation i:y?
nor . J i;h Lct` is L7 s.... •:�, s t d by tit wz; tf _'ati
togther with the lf::' M. monttt:,1::a"a
implemented, hake this
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