30th Annual IOOB Conference

Dr. Michael Burke, Tulane University

Dr. Burke is the Lawrence Martin Chair in Business in Tulane University's Freeman School of Business and he holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Psychology and Department of Environmental Health Sciences in Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In addition, he is a past President of SIOP.

Dr. Burke received his Ph.D. degree in I/O Psychology from IIT in 1982. His research focuses on learning and the efficacy of worker safety and health training. Dr. Burke's research also addresses the meaning of employee perceptions of work environment characteristics (psychological and organizational climate), the role of individual and situational factors as antecedents to individual and team performance, and the statistical properties and applications of meta-analytic procedures and procedures for estimating inter-rater agreement.

Dr. Fritz Drasgow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Unfortunately, Dr. Drasgow was unable to attend the conference due to a family emergency. Dr. Alan Mead presented in his stead.

Dr. Drasgow is a Professor of Psychology and of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received a Ph.D. degree in Quantitative Psychology from UIUC and subsequently served on the faculty at Yale University's School of Organization and Management.

Dr. Drasgow is a former chair of the APA's Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessments and a former chair of the U.S. Department of Defense's Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing. He currently serves as an adviser to the U.S. Department of Labor for the effort to computerize the General Aptitude Test Battery.

Dr. Drasgow's research has focused on issues related to psychological measurement, including the identification of individuals mis-measured by standardized tests and the examination of possible test bias against specific subgroups. In recent years he has worked extensively on the development of interactive video assessments of critical work-related social skills. His research has been extensively published and he serves on the editorial board of six journals.

Dr. Alice Eagly, Northwestern University

Dr. Eagly is the James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences, a Professor of Psychology, Faculty Fellow of Institute for Policy Research, and the Department Chair of Psychology at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1965.

Dr. Eagly's research covers gender-related issues, especially gender differences and similarities in leadership, and also stereotype content, prosocial behavior, aggression, partner preferences, and sociopolitical attitudes. Within the domain of leadership, Dr. Eagly developed the role congruity theory.

She has received several awards, including the Interamerican Psychologist Award for contributions to psychology as a science and profession in the Americas. Her recent book, Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders, was also recognized by APA Monitor and Harvard Business Review.

Dr. Nancy Tippins, Valtera Corporation

Dr. Tippins is the Senior Vice President and Managing Principal of the Selection Practice Group at Valtera where she is responsible for the development and execution of firm strategies related to employee selection and assessment. Dr. Tippins received her M.S. and Ph.D. in I/O Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

She has extensive experience in the development and validation of tests and assessments that are used for all levels of management and hourly employees and for a variety of purposes including selection, promotion, certification, development, and succession planning. In addition, she has designed numerous leadership development and succession planning programs.

Dr. Tippins has a longstanding involvement with SIOP where she served as President (2000-2001). She has presented and co-authored numerous articles on assessment. She was the former Associate Editor for the Scientist-Practitioner Forum of Personnel Psychology and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

Dr. Alan Mead, Illinois Institute of Technology

Dr. Mead presented instead of Dr. Fritz Drasgow, who was unable to attend the conference.

Dr. Mead received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana. Prior to joining the faculty at the Institute for Psychology, he was a practitioner for over a dozen years, working as a Manager, Research Scientist, Psychometrician, and as a Senior Manager for Aon Consulting. As a consultant and technical advisor, Dr. Mead has applied quantitative methods to a rich cross-section of applied problems. He has also implemented systems as diverse as computerized tests, web applications, data mining systems and psychometric estimation utilities; he holds LPIC-1 and Linux+ certifications.

Dr. Mead teaches psychometric theory, compensation, and quantitative topics such as validity generalization, utility theory and synthetic validity. His classes balance rigorous scholarship with practical hands-on experiences.

Dr. Mead, and students working with him, are actively engaged in research on psychometric applications (such as differential item functioning), technology's impact on HR functions (such as computerized testing), and applications of personality theory (such as the relative security of personality assessments). He has been published in journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Personnel Psychology, Applied Psychological Measurement, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and Applied Measurement in Education. He has authored numerous chapters and is a frequent participant at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology annual meeting.