Which of the following assessment methods has the LOWEST validity? a. structured interviews b. job knowledge tests c. personality tests d. cognitive ability tests

Personality test is the process of assessing human personality through questionnaires for the purpose of gathering the person's informations or details.

Therefore structured interviews, job knowledge tests and cognitive ability test has highest validity than PERSONALITY TEST.

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Baraq Baraq · Answer 2 · 2020-03-30T11:58:18+02:00

Answer:

C. Personality tests

Explanation:

Personality test is a method of testing, examining or carrying out assessment of individuals personality ideas. It makes use of a self rating questionnaire, often considered to be subjective, due to the fact that, it is susceptible to response distortion which can be as a result of lack of self knowledge or insight of the individual.

Hence, it is considered to have a low validity because, there is high tendency that it may not actually measure what it sets out to measure, due to response distortion from the subject of the study.

Therefore, when compared to Structured interviews, cognitive ability test and job knowledge test, it has the lowest validity.