Measuring Change in a Developmental Assessment Center: Evidence for Construct Validity
Speaker
Deborah Rupp, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
University of Illinois
Deborah Rupp is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has a joint appointment with the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University.
Rupp conducts research on the use of developmental assessment centers, and is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Developmental Assessment Centers (DACLab), a multinational and multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conducting many projects in this area. Rupp also conducts research in the areas of organizational justice and workplace bias. Her work has appeared in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Vocational Behavior, and is supported by grants from the Center for Human Resource Management and the Disability Research Institute.
Rupp has consulted for organizations such as Sun Microsystems, Solutia (formerly Monsanto), Colorado Department of Human Services, and the Virginia Department of Corrections.
Speaker
George Thornton III, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Colorado State University
Dr. Thornton is Professor of Psychology, Colorado State University. Dr. Thornton earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1966. He is a Diplomat in Industrial/ Organization Psychology awarded by the American Board of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational.
Dr. Thornton specializes in assessment centers, selection practices, test development and validation, and implications of employment discrimination law for personnel psychology. He has developed, validated, and implemented assessment centers and other situational exercises for selection and development for numerous jobs.
Dr. Thornton is the author of over 55 publications in refereed journals, 6 book chapters, and 3 books, namely Assessment Centers and Managerial Performance (with William Byham) and Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management, Developing Organizational Simulations: A Guide for Practitioners and Students (with Rose Mueller-Hanson). Dr. Thornton has made presentations on the assessment center method to professional conferences such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the International Congress on Assessment Center Methods, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and to professional audiences throughout the United States, and in Germany, Switzerland, England, Israel, South Africa, Indonesia, and China.
Speaker
Alyssa M. Gibbons