The Written Structured Interview (WSI) is a flexible and
cost effective alternative to the oral structured
interview for collecting detailed information from job
candidates. The WSI provides a set of behavioral and/or
situational questions to candidates and has them respond
in writing in a group setting. The process for
developing the instruments for use by a state
government, including questions and response rating
scales, is described. Data were collected from job
incumbents in several state government agencies on the
clarity, knowledge, skill, ability and other
characteristics (KSAO)-relevance, and job-relatedness of
the question, as well as on the effectiveness of
behavioral examples of responses. Inter-rater
reliability of pilot test responses show an average
estimate of .73, indicating that there was a reasonably
high level of agreement in the scoring of the WSI
responses across a broad range of jobs. pdf
