A study of the research and development of a Civil Service equal opportunities initiative

Offsetting racial disadvantage in employment: enhancing performance on personnel selection tests through access training

“…The evaluation of two pilot access training courses designed to prepare candidates for the EOQT (Thomas and Tolley 1993) demonstrated that through such courses it is possible to achieve statistically significant iriprovements in test scores, to improve performance through the whole selection process and in so doing increase ethnic minority recruitment.…”