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CANCELED - GLEAN Spring Event: Opportunities for Innovation in Assessment and Validation

When
13 Mar 2020
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location
1111 E. Broad Street, Columbus OH 43205
Spaces left
57

Registration

Member – $75.00
Non-member – $110.00
Student – $30.00
Must show student ID at registration

CANCELED

Opportunities for Innovation in Assessment and Validation

March 13, 2020

1111 E. Broad Street, Columbus OH 43205

Presented by:

Dr. Charles Scherbaum, Dr. Harold Goldstein, Dr. Ken Yusko, and

Dr. Elliott Larson

SHRM credits available:

6.5 Professional Development Credits (PDCs)

Cost:

Member : $75

Non-member: $110

Student: $30

Lunch Included

This full-day workshop will provide beginner-to-intermediate-level practitioners with information about how to incorporate innovative solutions into their current assessment programs and validation practices. The overall objective is to help participants become familiar with novel and modern approaches for assessing candidates with an emphasis on structured interviews and cognitive ability tests and approaches for validating these assessments in a way that meets legal and professional requirements while being efficient and cost effective. Participants will take part in small group exercises and discussions that will help them apply the knowledge and skills discussed.

Agenda:

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The morning session will focus on opportunities for innovating in the creation and delivery of assessments commonly used in the public and private sections with a particular focus on structured interviews and cognitive ability tests. Novel and modern approaches and principles for creating structured interviews and cognitive ability tests will be presented. Participants will have “hands-on” experience in small groups where they will identify opportunities to apply these approaches and principles to their current assessment programs and practice applying them, including writing enhanced structured interview items.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The afternoon session will focus on opportunities for innovating in the validation of assessment for use in personnel decisions. Validation methods that can meet legal and professional requirements in a more cost effective and efficient way will be presented. Lessons learned from two municipal government case studies where these approaches were applied will be shared. Participants will apply these concepts in small groups where they will develop validation plans for jobs in their organizations.

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

The day’s presentation will conclude with a wrap-up discussion and brief Q&A session.

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Harold Goldstein is a professor of IO Psychology at Baruch College in New York City. His research interests largely focus on how to develop valid selection systems that reduce adverse impact. His research has been published in top journals and books of the field including Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the SIOP Frontiers book series. Dr. Goldstein was one of the winners of the 2011 M. Scott Myers Award from the SIOP as well as the 2011 and 2017 Innovation Award from IPAC for his research on assessment development and validation. He has consulted with both private and public organizations and as served as an expert in in a variety of employment discrimination litigation.

Dr. Ken Yusko is a professor of IO Psychology at the University of Maryland. His research interests largely focus on how to develop valid selection systems that reduce adverse impact. His research has been published in top journals and books of the field including Personnel Psychology and Journal of Applied Psychology. Dr. Yusko was one of the winners of the 2011 M. Scott Myers Award from the SIOP as well as the 2011 and 2017 Innovation Award from IPAC for his research on assessment development and validation. He has consulted with both private and public organizations and as served as an expert in in a variety of employment discrimination litigation.

Dr. Charles Scherbaum is a professor of psychology at Baruch College in the City University of New York. His research focuses on personnel selection, cognitive ability testing, test validation, and analytics. Publications of his research have appeared in journals such as Personnel Psychology and Organizational Research Methods. Dr. Scherbaum was one of the winners of the 2011 M. Scott Myers Award and the 2018 Adverse Impact Reduction Research Initiative and Action Award from the SIOP well as the 2011 and 2017 Innovation Award from the IPAC for his research on assessment development and validation. He has consulted with both private and public organizations and as served as an expert in in a variety of employment discrimination litigation.

Dr. Elliott Larson is a consultant with Siena Consulting specializing in the design and implementation of innovative and legally defensible assessment systems. He has also worked on global assessment programs for talent selection and employee development. His work has been published in several outlets, including Current Directions in Psychological Science, Personnel Assessment and Decisions, and the Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection, and Retention. In addition, Dr. Larson was one of the recipients of the 2017 International Personnel Assessment Council’s Innovations Award for his work on assessment development and validation.