Entry Level Assessment Center (ELAC) Predictors for Success as Law Enforcement Officers: A Pilot Study.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Oliver, Patrick; Firmin, Michael W.
- Source
- National Social Science Journal; 2013, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p80-90, 11p, 7 Charts
- Subject
- CRIMINAL justice system
CRIMINAL justice personnel
LAW enforcement
ASSESSMENT centers (Personnel management procedure)
EMPLOYEE reviews
- Language
- ISSN
- 21541736
The article presents a pilot study which looked at the Entry Level Assessment Center (ELAC) as a success predictor for law enforcement officers. The sample of this research include Caucasian police officers as well as minority officers in the U.S. To produce reliable results, researchers conducted Written Problem Solving Exercise (WPSE) to assess the skill of test candidates in perceiving a problem and their ability to collect and use important data to document a possible solution to a problem at hand.