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Wonderlic Personnel Test: Indonesian Professional Learning Ce Nter 1
Wonderlic Personnel Test: Indonesian Professional Learning Ce Nter 1
Wonderlic Personnel Test: Indonesian Professional Learning Ce Nter 1
•The WPT measure general mental ability, but not how well a person will employ
their ability.
•It is often true that a person of lower ability, but stronger determination, will out
perform the higher ability person.
•This means that many elements of a person’s abilities, personal characteristic,
learned skills and background experience will all contribute to successful
performance.
This relationship was confirmed in a study by Mc Cormick, Mecham and Jeanneret (1989) WPT
Correletd with PAQ (r mult values 1970 .81; 1983, .79; combined .82)
mailing industry. Minimum scores for 12 thousand other positions have also been benchmarked and are available
Age Adjustment
Add to the
Age 12 min. raw score
15 - 29 0
30 - 39 1
40 - 49 2
50 - 54 3
55 - 59 4
60+ 5
Job Families
Validity Coeff Minimum
Job Title Training Performance Score
Executive .51* .53* 28
Managerial/Executive
Managerial/Executive .51* .53* 26
Managerial/Mid-Level
Supervisor .51* .53* 22
Managerial/First line
Technical .50** .58** 26
Professional
Technical .57** .51** 22
Mid Level
Sales na .61* 22
Office .71** .52*** 21
Clerical
Skilled Trades .68** .52*** 18
Unskilled Trades na .45**** 15
* Hunter & Hunter, 1948a
** Hunter & Hunter, 1984b
*** Pearlman, Schmidt & Hunter, 1980
****Northup,1986
Score Interpretation
12 common for plant employees and material handlers
15 the threshold level where employers may expect employees
to learn from written manuals.
18 Level where employees are first able to work independent
from supervision, usually in repair or skilled trades
21 (approximately the average score for all workers in the U.S.)
common with employees who work with standardized
alphanumeric systems
24 usually found with first line supervisors
27 associated with middle management and higher level
technicians
30 found with professionals and executive level managers.
Predictive Validity
Predictor Validity
Ability(I.e. WPT) .63
College grades .33
Biodata .33
Education .27
Reference checks .26
Interest .20
Interview .11
Age -.02