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52711 <br />Line test, published by Ergometrics, and the B-PAD for Police, by the B-Pad Group are in use <br />by many organizations as part of their selection programs for police officers. Other tests. <br />combining cognitive, personality, and/or biographical data, have been found to reduce adverse <br />impact over that found with tests based totally on cognitive tests. <br />While the currently proposed modifications to the MPRS testing procedure appear to <br />result in reduced adverse impact, they result in a selection process that has questionable validity. ‘ <br />The proposed selection process still includes the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, <br />Form ZM. a test that is sorely out of date, has problematic content, and was abandoned by its <br />publisher due to its content. In addition, as was clearly shown at trial, since the date of the <br />MPRS validity study there have been major changes in the Police Officer job in Minnesota. The <br />study was based on job analysis of the police officer job as it existed prior to the changes. This <br />calls into question the appropriateness of continuing to base use of the test on a seventeen-year- <br />old validity study and job analysis that has been shown not to be relevant for the job as it is <br />structured today. <br />While the modified MPRS procedures may be acceptable for short-term use, these <br />procedures should be replaced with a new test based on a current validity study. With current <br />advances in the test validation field, it may be feasible to use a validity generalization, or test <br />transportability strategy, thus avoiding the expense of conducting a new criterion-related validity <br />study. <br />SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS <br />In addition to the recommendations contained in this Court’s order dated November 6, <br />1996, and the proposals submitted by Defendants, Plaintiffs recommend the following: