Practical questions on selecting and evaluating professional skills

Duration

30h Pr

Number of credits

Lecturer

Isabelle Hansez

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

To create and use a methodology to identify necessary competencies to a job and behavioural anchors included in each competency.
To elaborate and validate situational judgement tests/work sample tests (either individual or collective, either oral or written) relevant to assess each competency which has been identify.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

To learn the selection process from criteria/competencies identification to the assessment of these criteria/competencies :
- How to identify the competencies relevant to a job : To develop a methodology
- How to create, develop and validate a a tool (situational judgement test or a work sample test) for assessing relevant identified competencies

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

PSYC0043-1 Selecting and evaluating professional skills, 30h Th, HANSEZ Isabelle

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

For a given job :

1. identify relevant competencies

2. develop an evaluation tool

3. validate this tool

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The course includes a part of traditional lessons and a part of permanences to help students in their personal/collective work.
Attend to the classes is required.

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus including written notes and references.
Required readings : 1. Lothe, B., Bertrand, F., & Hansez, I. (2012). Elaboration et validation de tests de jugement situationnel comme outil de sélection professionnelle : guide méthodologique. Psychologie du Travail et des Organisation, 18(3), 215-231. 2. Organ, D.W., Podsakoff, P.M., & Podsakoff, N.P. (2010). Expanding the criterion domain to include organizational citizenship behavior (OCB): Implications for employee selection. Zedeck & Sheldon (Eds.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology, Vol 2: Selecting and developing members for the organization (pp.281-323). Washington, DC : American Psychological Association. 3. Whetzel, D. L., & McDaniel, M. A. (2009). Situational judgment tests: An overview of current research. Human Resource Management Review, 19(3), 188-202.    Recommended reading : Thompson, N.A. (2009). Classical Item and Test Analysis with CITAS. Saint Paul, MN: Assessment Systems Corporation.  

Assessment methods and criteria

Personal work for the competencies identification and Collective work for the competencies evaluation.

Collective written work & Individual oral examination

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Course not available for the ERASMUS students

Contacts

Audrey BABIC, assistante, Unité de Valorisation des Ressources Humaines.
Tél. : 04/366.22.36
E-mail : audrey.babic@ulg.ac.be