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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 259-264
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Georgia T Chao is associate professor of management at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University.
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She has served as the study director for projects answering the needs of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Naval Research, and U.S Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences; and she has contributed to studies for the U.S Army's National Ground Intelligence Center, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Federal Aviation Administration.
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She has developed several assessment measurement approaches using Item Response Theory to generate measures having greater precision using brief, less burdensome instrumentation, which have the potential to lead to computer-adaptive applications and real-time data usage. She has served on several technical advisory panels including the American Psychological Association's Presidential Taskforce on Outcomes Assessment and Taskforce on Pay-for-Performance; the American Medical Association's Physicians Consortium for Quality Improvement; The Joint Commission; Hospital-based Inpatient Psychiatric Services measures; National Committee for Quality Assurance attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and substance abuse measures; and the Forum on Performance Measures for Behavioral Healthcare and Related Service Systems.
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Her expertise includes the development of staffing, training, and performance management systems; she specializes in developing measures for hard-to-measure individual-differences and outcome variables and in creating tools to evaluate a candidate's characteristics such as personality, interest, and cognitive ability essential for success in the workplace while mitigating adverse impact against protected groups. She is coeditor of the four-volume Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and lead author of the personality chapters in the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology and the Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology, as well as lead author of the personnel selection chapter in the 2000 Annual Review of Psychology.
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Currently, he is director of the National Growth and Change Study, a longitudinal study of cognitive changes with age in the entire United States. His research, which has focused on age-sensitive methods for psychological and educational measurement and longitudinal data analysis, includes published work in factor analysis, growth curve analysis, and dynamic modeling of adult cognitive abilities.
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He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and earned a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Ohio State University.
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