Committee: Measuring Human Capabilities: Performance Potential of Individuals and Collectives

Committee Membership Information


Project Title:	Measuring Human Capabilities: Performance Potential of Individuals and Collectives
PIN:	DBASSE-BBCSS-11-01
Major Unit:	Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Sub Unit:	DBASSE Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences
RSO:	Chauvin, Cherie
Subject/Focus Area:	Behavioral and Social Sciences; Education; National Security and Defense

Committee Membership

Date Posted: 11/15/2012

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

JACK W. STUSTER is vice president and principal scientist of Anacapa Sciences, Inc. He is a cultural anthropologist and certified professional ergonomist specializing in the measurement and enhancement of human performance in extreme environments. He recently completed a study for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that identified factors that contribute to survival and casualties during firefights. The study involved interviews with combat veterans, archival research, and assembly and analysis of a database comprising more than 200 firefight accounts coded for 88 variables. In addition, he contributed to the development of a training program for the Expedition Corps, astronauts selected for long duration space missions and recently completed a content analysis of confidential journals that were maintained by astronauts during their six-month tours of duty onboard the International Space Station. He also instructs law enforcement and national security personnel in the use of advanced techniques for the analysis of criminal and counter-insurgency intelligence. He is a fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and serves on the editorial board of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments. He has been a member of several government advisory groups including the standing committee of the National Research Council to support the efforts of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), for which he received a patriotic Civilian Service Commendation in 2011. He currently serves as the principal investigator of a NASA flight experiment and for development of The Cultural Depot, a PMESII-based information-sharing system for use by special operations personnel. He has a B.A. (with honors) in psychology and anthropology and both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Georgia T. Chao
Michigan State University

GEORGIA T. CHAO is associate professor of management at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Business at Michigan State University. She is an expert in management and cultural issues relating to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and the United States. She has additional expertise in generational cohort factors with respect to team and unit effectiveness. Her research interests include organizational socialization, career development, and international human resource management. She was elected to the American Psychological Association (APA) Council and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology, the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and Human Resource Management Review. She is a member of the Academy of Management, APA, and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has an M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Leatta Hough
Dunnette Group, Ltd.

LEAETTA HOUGH, president and founder of Dunnette Group and Chief Science Officer of HirePayoff™, is one of the world’s leaders in developing innovative candidate assessment systems for high-stakes settings. She specializes in developing hard-to-measure individual difference and outcome variables, 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 co-founded Personnel Decisions Research Institute and is past president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS, a coalition of 22 scientific societies). She co-edited the four-volume Handbook of Industrial & Organizational Psychology and was lead author of the personnel selection chapter for the Annual Review of Psychology, as well as the biodata assessment chapter of the Handbook of Workplace Assessment: Selecting and Developing Talent. Dr. Hough authored the workplace personality assessment chapters in the International Handbook of Work & Organizational Psychology, the Handbook of Personnel Selection, the Handbook on Testing and Assessment, and both editions of the I-O Psychology volume of the Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology. Three of her articles were reprinted in Employee Selection and Performance Management, a book of articles psychologists identified as seminal publications of the last 100 years. She has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with concentrations in differential psychology, measurement, and personality from the University of Minnesota. Her work has helped shape the science and practice of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Dr. Patrick C. Kyllonen
Educational Testing Service

PATRICK C. KYLLONEN is senior research director of the Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J. The Center directs (a) ETS’s Next Generation Higher Education Assessment and (b) Workforce Readiness initiatives; (c) large scale student, teacher, and school questionnaire research and development for the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA); and (d) 21st century skills assessment and development research. Before joining ETS in 1999, he was technical director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Manpower & Personnel Division. He received The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP) Achievement Award for the design, development, and evaluation of the Trait-Self Description (TSD) Personality Inventory used internationally. He is author (with S. Irvine, 2001) of Generating Items for Cognitive Tests: Theory and Practice, Learning and Individual Differences: Process, Trait, and Content Determinants (with P. L. Ackerman & R.D. Roberts, 1999), and Extending Intelligence: Enhancement and New Constructs (with R. Roberts and L. Stankov, 2008). He is an APA and AERA Fellow, and has served on the editorial boards of Intelligence and Human Factors. Previously, he participated as a member of two National Research Council planning committees: Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills and Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills. He has a B.A. from St. John's University and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Dr. John J. McArdle
University of Southern California

JOHN J. MCARDLE is professor of psychology and gerontology at the University of Southern California. Previously, he was a faculty member at the University of Virginia where he taught Quantitative Methods from 1984-2005. He was also the director of the Jefferson Psychometric Laboratory, and a visiting fellow at the Institute of Human Development at University of California at Berkeley. Currently, he is the director of the ongoing National Growth and Change Study (NGCS), which is a longitudinal study of cognitive changes over age in the entire United States. His research has focused on age-sensitive methods for psychological and educational measurement and longitudinal data analysis, and includes published work in the area of factor analysis, growth curve analysis, and dynamic modeling of adult cognitive abilities. He previously served on the National Research Council committee on Institutional Review Boards, Surveys and Social Science Research. He has a B.A. in psychology and mathematics from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. He has both an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology and computer sciences from Hofstra University in New York, and received his Post-Doctoral training in psychometrics and multivariate analysis at the University of Denver in Colorado.

Dr. Stephen Stark
University of South Florida

STEPHEN STARK is an associate professor in quantitative methods and industrial and organizational (I/O) psychology at the University of South Florida. His research focuses on the development and application of psychometric methods to practical problems in industrial, organizational, and educational settings. He works to develop and improve tests measuring constructs such as job performance, personality, and cognitive ability. His current research focuses on improving the measurement of non-cognitive constructs, such as personality, in high stake environments via alternative formats for administering items; computerized adaptive item selection; and the use of appropriateness measurement methods to detect unusual responding (“faking” in personality assessments). He is a senior fellow at the Army Research Institute Consortium Research Fellows Program, a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a member of the American Psychological Association, and a member of the National Council on Measurement in Education. He has a B.S. in physics from the University of New Orleans and a A.M. and Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mr. Randall W. Engle
Georgia Institute of Technology

RANDALL W. ENGLE is director of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on cognition and brain science. His interests include working memory capacity and their relationship to the concept of attention control. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (fellow), American Psychological Society (fellow), the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Psychonomic Society, Memory Disorders Research Society, and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. He has a B.S. from West Virginia State College, an M.A. from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from The Ohio State University.

Statement of Committee Composition

Dr. Marcus Raichle declined the Committee position on 12/12/2012 by telephone conversation and email.