Verbal selection test and work performance validity based on two samples of psychiatric aides were both .25, with corrected validites of .60 (n = 40) and .46 (n = 60). When combined with three previous samples (N = 273), meta-analysis yielded a mean validity of .25 (cumulative p = .00003) which provided further evidence of the validity of cognitive ability tests in selection of psychiatric aides.
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