Situational Judgement Selection Test Utility: Implications for Police Turnover
Abstract
Police agencies increasingly find attracting, recruiting, selecting, and retaining
police officers challenging. Officer candidates selected can have up to a 25 percent
fail rate in basic police training, while probationary officers in field training can fail
to complete training with rates as high as 40 percent. Police selection batteries
often include situational judgment tests (SJTs) designed to help ensure legal and
proper hiring standards. The scores of SJTs, and other selection battery scores, are
often filed once the hiring process is complete. This study explored the potential
SJT selection battery scores may have in the prediction of field training and
turnover outcomes. Results of binary logistical regression model testing suggest
that reading scores, likely a proxy for cognitive ability, best predicted field training
outcomes as well as overall and involuntary turnover. Additional factors with
predictive nexuses to training outcomes and retention include selection battery
retest, restraint sub-scores, and prior law enforcement experience. Applied
recommendations include pre-field training interventions for new officers with low
reading scores, expanded use of realistic job previews, and policy reviews related to
selection battery retest.
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