Clinical and scientif ic letters

Furthermore, the use of Cronbach's alpha for calculation of the internal consistency of the questionnaire seems inappropriate. The questionnaire items do not appear independent of each other. For instance, ‘Made appropriate decisions based on relevant information’ and ‘Sought to understand and solve problems by taking into account the whole picture’ seem to be testing the same construct. The conclusions on the validity of the Foundation Programme selection tools from this study are based on a small sample. The findings related to the SJT score and those needing remediation are based on only 16 candidates. Moreover, the study was carried out by the Work Psychology Group who were involved in both the development and