The HR Manager at Fresh Foods instructs his subordinates to make a list of all employees who have completed about one year in the firm. He wants his subordinates to collect the test scores obtained by these employees when they applied for the job and compare these scores to their job performance over the past year. In this scenario, the HR Manager most likely wants to conduct a(n) _____.
A) internal validity test
B) concurrent validity test
C) face validity test
D) predictive validity test

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The HR Manager's instructions suggest that he wants to compare the test scores obtained during the hiring process to the job performance of employees who have completed about one year in the firm. This indicates that the HR Manager is interested in conducting a predictive validity test, which measures the ability of a selection tool (in this case, the test scores obtained during hiring) to predict future job performance.

The HR Manager at Fresh Foods Instructs His Subordinates to Make