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 [email protected] http://home.ubalt.edu/tmitch
Mike Sturman, Cornell U. (DataSim)
Organizational Mgt, Communication, and Law
[email protected] (607) 255-5383
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Capstone Course in I/O ΨU. of Baltimore M.S. in Applied Ψ
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 problemschanges/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 coursesCreate data sets for examples
AssessmentDevelop 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?