Building Better Students
Preparation for the Workforce
Jeremy Burrus, Krista Mattern, Bobby D. Naemi, and Richard D. Roberts
Author Information
JEREMY BURRUS is a Principal Research Scientist in ProExam's Center for Innovative Assessments. Before coming to ProExam, he was a Principal Research Scientist at ACT, and prior to that a Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service. He graduated with a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006, and was a post-doctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School in New York City from 2006-2008.
KRISTA D. MATTERN is a Director of the Statistical and Applied Research Department at ACT. Previously, she was a Principal Research Scientist, and prior to that a Research Scientist at College Board. See graduated with a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2006. Her research focuses on validity and fairness issues in the context of higher education.
BOBBY NAEMI is a Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Rice University in 2008. His main research interests are personality and psychometrics and his current work at ETS involves applying existing noncognitive measures to predict workforce and educational outcomes, as well as developing and validating new fake-resistant noncognitive measures.
RICHARD D. ROBERTS is Chief Scientist at ProExam's Center for Innovative Assessments, developing noncognitive assessment products. Prior to this position, he was a Principal Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and a National Research Council Fellow at Brooks Air Force Base. He is widely published in his field with about a dozen books, nearly 200 peer-review articles (or book chapters), and over 400 presentations around the globe.
Contributors:
Alex Casillas
ACT, Inc.
Iowa City, IA
Olexander Chernyshenko
Division of Strategy, Management, and Organization
College of Business
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore
Kim-Yin Chan
Division of Strategy, Management, and Organization
College of Business
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore
Hope Clark
ACT, Inc.
Iowa City, IA
Indako Clarke
School of Psychology
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Kit Double
School of Psychology
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Juliya Golubovich
Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ
Patrick L. Hill
Department of Psychology
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ringo Ho Hoon-Ho
Division of Psychology
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore
Jennifer Klafehn
Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ
Carrie Klein
Department of Higher Education
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
David A. Kravitz
School of Business
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Patrick C. Kyllonen
Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ
Jaime Lester
Department of Higher Education
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Emma Sam Yoke Loo
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore
Carolyn MacCann
School of Psychology
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Dana M. Murano
Department of Educational Psychology
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, NY
Christopher D. Nye
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Fred Oswald
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Houston, TX
Steven B. Robbins
WorkFORCE Innovation
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ
Brent W. Roberts
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois
Champaign, IL
Paul Sackett
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Neal Schmitt
Department of Psychology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Amy Shaw
Department of Psychology
Rice University
Houston, TX
Rong Su
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Marilyn Uy
Division of Strategy, Management and Organization
College of Business
Nanyang Technical University
Singapore
Philip T. Walmsley
Office of Human Resources Management
Personnel Research and Assessment Division
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Washington, D.C.
Roger P. Weissberg
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Ryan Whorton
Educational Testing Service
Princeton, NJ