Hello
fellow UB folks,
I
am a recent graduate of UB’s I-O program and am collaborating with my
colleague, Jim Kurtessis, to develop a symposium focused on using situational
judgment tests (SJTs) as a training evaluation tool for this year’s SIOP Conference.
We are hoping to feature work by researchers and practitioners alike. That said
we would like to invite submissions focused on research in this area to join
this symposium and share any findings you may have uncovered from recent
research.
We
envision that this symposium will present new research on the benefits of using
SJTs for evaluating training, the drawbacks of such assessments, and how
administering SJTs in this manner may differ when they are used for selection
or promotional purposes. Our goal is to present empirical research which will
both provide practitioners with best practices and will also serve to provide
academically based faculty with future research ideas and directions. This
symposium will therefore be research based, but readily applicable to applied
practice.
A
symposium that my colleague organized last year discussed the use of SJTs for
measuring teamwork and communication, and was well attended and garnered much
positive feedback. Capitalizing on the ever increasing interest in SJTs, we
would like to once again present several papers which will further increase
interest in SJTs and provide audience members with important and relevant
empirically based results and recommendations.
If
you are interested in joining this symposium or have any questions, please let
us know.
Sincerely,
Andrew
Loignon
Research
Associate
American
Institutes for Research
Phone:
202-403-5914
E-mail:
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Jim
Kurtessis
Research
Associate
American
Institutes for Research
Phone:
202-403-5589
E-mail:
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