QUESTION
How do promotional exams score and do they use a curved or weighted system?
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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.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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If not, send it in writing, but try your best.
Sanford Cohen
0:19:51
Mhmm.
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And promotional exams, we do use.
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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.
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Right?
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We're a Union town.
0:20:00
We could take a sick day.
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But go ahead.
Sanford Cohen
0:20:04
Promotional exams, we typically use waiting.
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A portion of that final score is allocated to the score on the multiple choice test.
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And a portion is allocated to seniority and firm uniform titles, often departmental awards.
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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.
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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%.
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You asked about curving.
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Curving is a mechanism that we use widely in our in our room.
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Scoring on multiple choice tests.
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It's standard for the industry psychometric examinations.
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Used for all the admissions, tests, SATs, GREs, and cats.
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So what it does is it it essentially grades people in relationship.
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To their colleagues who've taken the same exam and not on a fixed scale.
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And that's after we determine in the appropriate case whether there's any adverse impact against particular racial or ethnic or gender groups.
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That results from establishing a pass fail score at a certain level.