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The Relationship Between Rating Strategy And Accuracy Of Performance Rating, Richard Carter
The Relationship Between Rating Strategy And Accuracy Of Performance Rating, Richard Carter
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Given the recent theoretical emphasis on the process of performance rating (e.g., Landy & Farr, 1980), a test of the suggestion that better raters may use different rating processes than poorer raters was implemented. Specifically, this study was designed to determine if more accurate raters use a systematically different rating strategy than less accurate raters. Accuracy, the proximity of a rating to the ratee’s true score, was operationalized by differential accuracy (Cronbach, 1955), while rating strategies were determined through a policy capturing method (e.g., Zedeck & Kafry, 1977).
Seventh-three subjects rated a series of videotapes, developed by Borman (e.g. Borman, …