09-14-81 Civil Service Commission Meeting minutes

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• • Civil Service Meeting September 14, 1981 • Page 14 Trainer: You know, the testing is a major item we need to cover. Hudgens: Do you have some of that information on that? Davis: I have some--ah--in visiting with the different Personnel Directors or Civil Service Directors, they have been using texts----- Hud ens: I'm talking about the entrance exam. Davis: They did not give us a copy of the entrance exam. Hudgens: Didn't they give you the information on it though? Davis: I thought you had that. Hudgens: No, I don't Trainer: We might not need it now. What did you find in talking with other depart- ments on how they went about establishing their test procedures; their actual test questions and things like that? Davis: They are using--ah--in fact virtually every one of them I had talked with, had used material from that resource right there. ---and they do have study guides in which you can take test questions. Trainer: They are standardized tests? Davis: Yes, or you can make them up. Now, there's other sources where you can get standardized tests. Freeman: The Commission is, at this time, trying to develop a promotional exam. It aFi s not been developed at this time. Some of us have signed an agreement that we are interested in their promotional exam, which I did sign to make us a part of it. It doesn't bind us to anything but makes us available to the Commission as being interested in it. Davis: I think it's going to keep us from having some problems as far as having the test questions challenged. Trainer: I think they ought to be related for promotional exams (un-intelligible) Jo ner: There's some suits pending now in Pasadena. Two Captains, I think, have sued----or two Lieutenants--- Trainer:They dropped that suit. There's three Captains. Joyner: Smith, and I think--- . Trainer: Right, they dropped their suit.