Reactions of African-American and white applicants to written and video-based police selection tests

The present study compared the reactions of African-American and White appl icants for a law enforcement job to multiple-choice and video-based tests. Overall, applicants reacted more negatively to the video-based test than to the multiple-choice test in terms of predictive validity, fairness, and ge neral affect. There was also a Test Method x Race interaction such that Afr ican-Americans reacted more positively than Whites to the video-based tests . Results are discussed in terms of implications for the use of video-based test, implications for reducing adverse impact, and directions for future applicant reactions research.