Course: APPL 655 Practical Applications in I/O Psychology

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Course APPL 655 Practical Applications in I/O
Psychology

• Tom Mitchell, U. of Baltimore, (Instructor)
• Div of Applied Psychology Quant Methods
• Tmitchell_at_ubalt.edu
• http//home.ubalt.edu/tmitch
• Mike Sturman, Cornell U. (DataSim)
• Organizational Mgt, Communication, and Law
  
  
  
• mcs5_at_cornell.edu [phone]

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Capstone Course in I/O ?U. of Baltimore M.S. in
Applied ?

• M.S. Curriculum in I/O (42 hours)
• Personnel (I)
• Job analysis / personnel / assessment
• Organizational (O)
• Org psych / motivation-satisfaction-leadership
• Core
• Research methods / statistics

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Competencies Demonstrated

• Core SKAs
• Conduct job analysis
• Develop performance appraisal
• Develop employee selection program
• Assess employee morale
• Analyze data
• Software utilization
• Communication / Interpersonal skills
• Report writing
• Oral presentation of findings
• Teamwork skills

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Course Format

• Applied Psychology Consultants Inc. APC, Inc.
  (virtual consulting firm)
• Instructor(s) Senior consultant
• Students Junior consultants
• 3 projects each
• (selection/performance appraisal/satisfaction)
• Team Leader on one of projects

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Course Format (dynamic/interactive)

• Instructor responds
• to identified problems
• changes/redirects (via memos)
• to proposed solutions
• to interventions
• Provides
• simulated feedback (data)
• - to confirm/disconfirm hypotheses
• critique / recommendations

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DataSim (Mike Sturman)

• Visual Basic program
• Creates data sets to user specifications
• Saves simulation / data in txt file
• - For import to Excel/SPSS/SAS/ etc.
• Imports existing data
• Adds additional variables later

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DataSim (Sturman)

• Constructs / variables (unlimited)
• Number of items (unlimited)
• Reliability (internal consistency)
• Correlation matrix (user specified)
• Construct types
• Normal (continuous)
• Categorical
• Custom continuous

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Item types char

• Normal continuous
• Min/max/ mean/ standard deviation
• Truncate / winsorize
• Categorical
• 2 to 12
• Proportion of each category
• Custom - continuous
• Median / standard deviation
• Skew level ( to -)
• Tail elongation

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Project Process Team

• Identifies problem
• Formulates hypotheses
• Develops assessment plan
• Requests data from organization
• Develops or finds existing measures
  (test/questionnaire/survey)
• Creates SPSS data structure / parameters

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Example Sel3 Alum Alum Corp.

• Selection of mid-managers
• Concurrent Validation study
• Demographics
• Race/gender/education
• Predictors
• WPT/WGCTA/CPI
• Criteria
• Grievances / supervisor rating

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Project Process Team

• Analyses data using SPSS
• Incorporates results in report
• Forwards report to Instructor for critique /
  grade

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Uses of DataSim

• Research methods
• Simulate data for proposals
• Test pilot data for studies
• Statistics courses
• Create data sets for examples
• Assessment
• Develop unique data set for each student

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Suggestions?

• For DataSim?
• Other uses?
• What you would like it to do?
• For Capstone course?