Section 6.05. Examinations.

 

(1)  The director shall establish criteria for evaluating applicant qualifications and shall require the same or equivalent examination for all applicants competing for eligibility on a register except as may be provided in ch. ER-MRS 27 .

(2)  Examinations may include any technique or techniques which the director deems appropriate to evaluate applicants.

(3)  All examinations shall be:

(a) Based on information from job analysis, position analysis or other equivalent information documenting actual job tasks to be performed or skills and knowledges required to perform job tasks, or both;

(b) Developed in such a manner as to establish the relationship between skills and knowledges required for successful performance on the test and skills and knowledges required for successful performance on the job;

(c) Supported by data documenting that the skills and knowledges required for successful performance on the test are related to skills and knowledges which differentiate among levels of job performance if the examination results are to be used as a basis for ranking candidates;

(d) Sufficiently reliable to comply with appropriate standards for test validation; and

(e) Objectively rated or scored.

History: Cr. Register, October, 1972, No. 202 , eff. 11-1-72; r. and recr. (1) and (3), am. (2), r. (4) and (5), Register, February, 1981, No. 302 , eff. 3-1-81; correction in (1) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register, October, 1994, No. 466 ; corrections in (1), (2) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6., Stats., Register September 2015 No. 717 .