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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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Appendix

Workshop Agenda and Participants





AGENDA

Workshop on New Directions in Assessing Individuals and Groups
April 3-4, 2013

Workshop Goals

  1. Facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue on the current and future state-of-the-science in measurement of individual capabilities and the combination of individual capabilities to create collective capacity to perform.
  2. Inform the design of a maximally effective selection and assignment system.

Wednesday, April 3

8:00 am Workshop Check-In
 
9:00 Welcome from the National Research Council
  Robert M. Hauser, Executive Director, Division of
Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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  Overview of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
  Barbara A. Wanchisen, Director, Board on Behavioral,
Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
 
  Introductions
 
9:30 Workshop Objectives and Study Overview
  Jack Stuster, Anacapa Sciences, Inc., and Chair, Committee on Measuring Human Capabilities
 
10:00 Sponsor’s Perspective
  Gerald (Jay) Goodwin, Chief, Foundational Science, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
 
10:45 Break
 
11:00 Setting the Stage: The Evolving Goals of Candidate Testing and Its Role in Personnel Selection
  Fred Oswald, Rice University
 
12:00 pm Keynote Address: Psychometrics for a New Generation of Assessments
  Alina von Davier, Research Director, Center for Advanced
Psychometrics, Educational Testing Service
 
12:30 Working Lunch
  Jack Stuster, Chair
Topic: Discussion of ideas presented in Keynote Address
 
1:15 Emerging Constructs and Theory
 

Part One: Invited Presentations

  A Psychoneurometric Approach to Individual Differences Assessment
  Christopher Patrick, Florida State University
  The Emerging Cognitive Constructs of Working Memory
Capacity and Executive Attention
  Michael Kane, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  The Agentic Self: Action-Control Beliefs
  Todd Little, Kansas University
Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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Part Two: Roundtable Discussion with Committee Members and Invited Presenters

 
3:30 Break
 
3:45 Ethical Implications of Future Testing Techniques and Personnel Selection Paradigms
  Rodney Lowman, Alliant International University
 
  Reactions from Committee Members
 
4:45 Conclude Day One
 
Thursday, April 4
 
8:30 am Day Two Workshop Check-In Open
 
9:00 Summary of Day One and Overview of Day Two
  Jack Stuster, Anacapa Sciences, Inc., and Chair, Committee on Measuring Human Capabilities
9:15 Measuring Individual Differences and Predicting Individual Performance
 

Part One: Invited Presentations

  Taxonomic Structure for Thinking About Ways to Improve the Quality of Selection Systems
  Paul Sackett, University of Minnesota
  Rethinking Interests
  James Rounds, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Assessing Cognitive Skills: Case History, Diagnosis, and Treatment Plan
  Earl Hunt, University of Washington
 
10:15 Break
 
10:30 Measuring Individual Differences and Predicting Individual Performance, Continued
 

Part Two: Roundtable Discussion with Committee Members and Invited Presenters

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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12:00 pm Working Lunch
  Jack Stuster, Chair
Topic: Continued roundtable discussion with committee members and invited presenters
12:45 Group Composition Processes and Performance
 

Part One: Invited Presentations


Team Composition: Theory, Practice, and the Future
  Scott Tannenbaum, Group for Organizational Effectiveness
  Understanding and Enabling the Collective Capabilities of Teams
  Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Collective Intelligence in the Performance of Human Groups
  Anita Williams Woolley, Carnegie Mellon University
 
 

Part Two: Roundtable Discussion with Committee Members and Invited Presenters

 
3:15 Break
 
3:30 Cross-cutting Links and Research Gaps: Roundtable Discussion with Committee Members and All Invited Presenters
 
4:00 Workshop Implications
 

Part One: Invited Presentation


Summary of Emerging Themes
  Randall Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Member, Committee on Measuring Human Capabilities
 
 

Part Two: Reactions from Invited Presenters and Committee Members

 
4:45 Closing Comments
  Jack Stuster, Chair
 
5:00 Adjourn
Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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PARTICIPANTS

Committee Members

Jack W. Stuster (Chair), Anacapa Sciences, Inc.

Georgia T. Chao, Michigan State University

Randall W. Engle, Georgia Institute of Technology

Leaetta Hough, Dunnette Group, Ltd.

Patrick C. Kyllonen, Educational Testing Service

John J. McArdle, University of Southern California

Stephen Stark, University of South Florida

Workshop Presenters and Panelists

Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Institute of Technology

Earl Hunt, University of Washington

Michael Kane, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Todd Little, Kansas University

Rodney Lowman, Alliant International University

Fred Oswald, Rice University

Christopher Patrick, Florida State University

James Rounds, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Paul Sackett, University of Minnesota

Scott Tannenbaum, Group for Organizational Effectiveness

Alina von Davier, Educational Testing Service

Anita Williams Woolley, Carnegie Mellon University

Guests of the Sponsor (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, ARI)

Paul Gade, George Washington University and ARI (retired)

Gerald Goodwin, ARI

Tonia Heffner, ARI

Robert Kilcullen, ARI

Jennifer Klafehn, ARI

Kate LaPort, ARI

Peter Legree, ARI

Karin Orvis, ARI

Lynne Rochette, ARI

Andrew Slaughter, ARI

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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Members of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Jennifer S. Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Daniel R. Ilgen, Michigan State University

James S. Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

National Research Council Staff

Shenae Bradley, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering

Cherie Chauvin, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Jennifer Diamond, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Renée L. Wilson Gaines, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Robert M. Hauser, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

Margaret Hilton, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Jatryce Jackson, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Ellen Kimmel, Information Services

Rebecca Morgan, Information Services

Daniel Talmage, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Barbara A. Wanchisen, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Tina Winters, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

Registered Attendees

In addition to those listed above, the following individuals registered to attend the public workshop either in person or virtually through the live webcast.

Neil Albert, Spencer Foundation

Zach Alessi-Friedlander, office of the Chief of Staff of the Army Strategic Studies Group

Terry Allard, Office of Naval Research

Jane Arabian, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness)

Zunair Ashfaq, University of Pennsylvania

Sujeeta Bhatt, U.S. Department of Defense

Kate Bleckley, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, Federal Aviation Administration

John Bodnar, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Sue Bogner, Institute for the Study of Human Error, LLC

Joshua Breslau, RAND Corporation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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Cristina Byrne, Federal Aviation Administration

Kerri Chik, Aptima, Inc.

Angelo Collins, CENTRA Technology, Inc.

Nancy Cooke, Arizona State University

Jeffrey Cooper, National Security Sector SAIC

Mary Cummings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cathie Currie, Altshuller Institute

David Desaulniers, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Abigail Desjardins, NSI

David Dorsey, National Security Agency

Lauren Fairley-Wright, U.S. Department of Labor

Gonzalo Ferro, PDRI

Meredith Ferro, PDRI Hannah Foldes, PDRI

Pamela Frugoli, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration

Joe Funderburke, office of the Chief of Staff of the Army Strategic Studies Group

Hal Greenwald, MITRE

Kelly Hale, Design Interactive, Inc.

Kara Hall, National Cancer Institute

Amy Haufler, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Albert Holland, NASA Johnson Space Center

Valerie Holt, Lehigh University

Amy Holtz, BSI

Todd Horowitz, National Cancer Institute

Niav Hughes, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Michael Ingerick, HumRRO

Kris Inman, National Intelligence University

Garth Jensen, OPNAV N9

Cheyanne Jones, Advocatee

James Kajdasz, National Intelligence University

Charles Keil, National Security Agency

Inki Kim, Pennsylvania State University

Deirdre Knapp, HumRRO

Tracy Laabs, Strategic Analysis, Inc.

Michael McDaniel, Virginia Commonwealth University

Jill McQuade, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Gerald J. Melican, The College Board

Julia Milton, Consortium of Social Science Associations

Amy Mistretta, National Institute on Aging

Wendy Nelson, National Cancer Institute

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2013. New Directions in Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18427.
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David Neri, Office of Naval Research

Cynthia Null, NASA Engineering and Safety Center

Janet Okamoto, Mayo Clinic

Mary Parker, Institute for Palliative and Hospice Training, Inc.

Misha Pavel, National Science Foundation

James Pepitone, Humaneering Institute

Linda Pierce, Federal Aviation Administration, Civil Aerospace Medical Institute

Robert Pool, Digital Pens, LLC

Gerald Powell, office of the Chief of Staff of the Army Strategic Studies Group

Jennifer Rasmussen, SHL

Krista Ratwani, Aptima, Inc.

Leslie Richards, University of the District of Columbia

Dylan Schmorrow, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Katharine Shobe, Office of Naval Research

John Skinner, Valtera Corporation

Amanda Snook, National Threat Assessment Center, U.S. Secret Service

Amber Sprenger, MITRE Corporation

Kay Stanney, Design Interactive, Inc.

Marc Steinberg, Office of Naval Research

William Strickland, HumRRO

John Tangney, Office of Naval Research

Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University

Nancy Tippins, Valtera Corporation

Nick Vasilopoulos, National Security Agency

Alexander Walker, Aptima, Inc.

Susan Winter, University of Maryland

Michelle Wisecarver, PDRI

Mary Zalesny, office of the Chief of Staff of the Army Strategic Studies Group

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As an all-volunteer service accepting applications from nearly 400,000 potential recruits annually from across the U.S. population, the U.S. military must accurately and efficiently assess the individual capability of each recruit for the purposes of selection, job classification, and unit assignment. New Directions for Assessing Performance Potential of Individuals and Groups is the summary of a workshop held April 3-4, 2013 to examine the future of military entrance assessments. This workshop was a part of the first phase of a larger study that will investigate cutting-edge research into the measurement of both individual capabilities and group composition in order to identify future research directions that may lead to improved assessment and selection of enlisted personnel for the U.S. Army. The workshop brought together scientists from a variety of relevant areas to focus on cognitive and noncognitive attributes that can be used in the initial testing and assignment of enlisted personnel. This report discusses the evolving goals of candidate testing, emerging constructs and theory, and ethical implications of testing methods.

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