Expertise
Specialty & Interests: Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Quantitative Psychology
We focus on applied psychometric research, especially in the realm of employment and occupational testing.
Current Research
- Personality Testing
- Test Security
- Setting Cutoff Scores
My research interests are varied but I tend to gravitate most strongly toward topics in psychometrics, or the measurement of psychological traits. A bit more specifically, I tend to focus on psychometrics as it applies in the world of work, especially in the construction of measures testing peoples' knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal characteristics related to their potential for strong work performance. My research has addressed topics in both personality and cognitive ability testing, as well as tests of occupational knowledge used in licensure/certification contexts. I have explored a number of topics in test construction and validation, setting cutoff scores, and test-taker cheating and response distortion, as well as topics in confirmatory factor models, item response theory, Rasch measurement, and Monte Carlo simulation.