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QUESTION

How do promotional exams score and do they use a curved or weighted system?

0:19:22

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The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) uses a weighted scoring system for promotional exams, with exceptions for curving based on industry standards.

  • Promotional exams typically allocate scores based on a combination of multiple choice test results, seniority, and departmental awards.
  • For city-wide exams, 85% of the score is attributed to multiple choice test results, and 15% to seniority and awards.
  • The fire department and some agencies divide scores evenly between multiple choice tests and seniority/awards.
  • Curving, used widely in scoring multiple choice tests, grades participants relative to their peers and is adjusted for potential adverse impacts on demographic groups.
Carmen De La Rosa
0:19:22
Can you go into information on the scoring method for promotional exams and whether the department usually utilizes a curb or weighted scoring system in formulating eligibility lists.
Sanford Cohen
0:19:38
Good afternoon.
Carmen De La Rosa
0:19:39
Good afternoon.
Sanford Cohen
0:19:41
The civil service gods thought to give me laryngitis for today.
0:19:47
So I hope you bear with
Carmen De La Rosa
0:19:48
me.
0:19:48
Yes.
0:19:48
Yes.
0:19:49
If not, send it in writing, but try your best.
Sanford Cohen
0:19:51
Mhmm.
0:19:52
And promotional exams, we do use.
0:19:55
Typically use
Kadian Outar
0:19:56
You take
Carmen De La Rosa
0:19:56
a sick day.
0:19:57
You know that.
0:19:57
Right?
0:19:59
We're a Union town.
0:20:00
We could take a sick day.
0:20:01
But go ahead.
Sanford Cohen
0:20:04
Promotional exams, we typically use waiting.
0:20:09
A portion of that final score is allocated to the score on the multiple choice test.
0:20:16
And a portion is allocated to seniority and firm uniform titles, often departmental awards.
0:20:26
And our city wide exams, the general rule is that we will allocate 85% underscore to the multiple choice score and 15% to see your knee in awards.
0:20:44
The fire department and several other agencies are unique in allocating for their promotional exams, scores on a multiple choice tested 50%, and seniority and departmental awards at 50%.
0:21:04
You asked about curving.
0:21:07
Curving is a mechanism that we use widely in our in our room.
0:21:15
Scoring on multiple choice tests.
0:21:18
It's standard for the industry psychometric examinations.
0:21:24
Used for all the admissions, tests, SATs, GREs, and cats.
0:21:34
So what it does is it it essentially grades people in relationship.
0:21:40
To their colleagues who've taken the same exam and not on a fixed scale.
0:21:45
And that's after we determine in the appropriate case whether there's any adverse impact against particular racial or ethnic or gender groups.
0:21:58
That results from establishing a pass fail score at a certain level.
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