Talent Assessment Embracing Innovation and Mitigating Risk in the Digital Age

Tracy Kantrowitz is Chief Product Officer at Personnel Decisions Research Institute (PDRI) where she leads assessment product development and implementation programs. She has published in leading journals on assessment science and has led large-scale assessment programs for U.S Office of Personnel Management, Air Force, Army, NASA, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, members of the intelligence community, and Google. A SIOP Fellow, she recently served as its Professional Practice Officer. She has been awarded the Distinguished Early Career Contributions - Practice and M. Scott Myers Award for applied research in the workplace, and serves on the editorial board of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.

Douglas H. Reynolds is Executive Vice President of Innovations and Technology at Development Dimensions International (DDI), where his team develops and implements software-based assessment and learning products for Fortune 500 companies. Reynolds has served as an expert witness regarding personnel selection practices, and he has published and presented frequently on topics related to the intersection of I-O psychology and technology. He co-edited Next Generation Technology-Enhanced Assessment, and the Handbook of Workplace Assessment, and co-authored Online Recruiting and Selection. He is a Past President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2012-2013) and recipient of SIOP's Distinguished Professional Contributions Award.

John Scott is Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of APTMetrics. Dr. Scott has more than 30 years of experience designing and implementing talent management and assessment systems across a variety of global, high-stakes settings. He is a Fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a recipient of SIOP's Distinguished Professional Contributions and Distinguished Service Awards, as well as its Humanitarian Award. Scott is a SIOP Foundation Board Trustee and previously served as SIOP's Senior Representative to the United Nations. He also served as an APA Council representative and is the past editor-in-chief of SIOP's premier journal, Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice. Scott has co-edited or co-authored 4 books and 45 chapters and articles in the field of organizational psychology.

SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION: THEMES, STRUCTURE, MAJOR TOPICS OF THIS VOLUME

1. Context and Overview
Tracy M. Kantrowitz, Douglas H. Reynolds, and John C. Scott

SECTION 2: ADVANCES IN THE FOUNDATIONAL SCIENCE OF ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGIES

2. When Worlds Collide: Using What We Know About Machine Learning to Inform Assessment Practices
Ann Marie Ryan, Anthony S. Boyce, and Christine E. Boyce

3. Methodological Updates in Personality Assessment for High- Stakes Use Â
Adam W. Meade and Luke I. Priest

4. Advances in Cognitive Ability Assessment in the Mitigation of Group Differences
Charles A. Scherbaum, Harold W. Goldstein, Kenneth P. Yusko, Elliott Larson, Annie Kato, Kajal Patel, and Yuliya Cheban

5. Applying Natural Language Processing to Assessment
MQ Liu

6. Personality Assessment: Past, Present, and Future
Ryne A. Sherman and Robert Hogan

7. Reflections on Advancements in Assessment
Neal Schmittvi

SECTION 3: INNOVATIONS AND TRENDS

8. Artificial Intelligence in Automated Scoring of Video Interviews
Nathan Mondragon

9. Social Media Data in Assessments
Daly Vaughn and Marc Cubrich

10. Transforming Leadership Assessment Using Natural Language Processing
Scott Tonidandel and Betsy H. Albritton

11. Mobile- Enabled Assessment in the Modern Talent Landscape
Darrin M. Grelle and Sara L. Gutierrez

12. Technology- Enabled Simulation in Selection: Opportunities and Cautions
Seymour Adler and Sarena Bhatia

13. Fixing the Industrial- Organizational Psychology- Technology Interface (IOPTI): Avoiding Both IO/ Tech and Tech/ IO Conflict
Richard N. Landers

SECTION 4: REGULATIONS, PRINCIPLES, AND STANDARDS

14. Balancing Innovation and Professional Standards for Employment Tests
Nancy T. Tippins

15. Data Privacy Implications of Assessment Technology
Katheryn A. Andresen

16. Potential Impact of Disabilities and Neurodiversity on the Constructs Measured by Selection Procedures
Jone M. Papinchock, Angela L. Rosenbaum, and Eric M. Dunleavy

17. Reflections on Legal and Standards Update: Opportunity Meets Reality
Kenneth M. Willner, Kathleen K. Lundquist, and Claire Saba Murphy

SECTION 5: ASSESSMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT

18. Coaching- Centric Assessments: Deep Data to Fuel Guided Growth
Evan F. Sinar

19. From Tried and True to Shiny and New: Current Best Practices in Assessment for Development and the New Technologies That Will Soon Replace Them
Matt Paese and Georgi Yankov

20. Maximizing the Effectiveness of Assessment- Rich Leadership Development Programs
Sarah Stawiski and Cynthia D. McCauley

21. Reflections on Assessment for Development
Lynn Collins and José David

SECTION 6: CASE STUDIES

22. Connecting People and Opportunities With Artificial Intelligence
Robert E. Gibby and Adam J. Ducey

23. Applications of High- Stakes Rich- Media Simulations
Suzanne Tsacoumis

24. Psychoneurometric Assessments for High-Risk Jobs
Brennan D. Cox, Dan McHail, Kyle Pettijohn, and Tatana Olson

25. Gamified Assessments for Prehire Evaluation
Christina Norris- Watts, Kathleen E. Hall, and Nathan Mondragon

26. The Full (Assessment) Monty: Accelerating Individual and Organizational Development
Matt Dreyer, Vicki Walia, Sandra Hartog, and Lynn Collins

27. Driving Company Growth and Leader Development: Innovations from Asia
James D. Eyring

28. Assessment in a Large Multinational
Paul van Katwykviii Contents

SECTION 7: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

29. Putting the Pieces Together: Reflections on the Next Chapter of Assessment Progress
Paul R. Sackett

30. Optimizing the Value of Assessments Through Myth Busting and Stakeholder Communications
Gina Seaton and Allan H. Church

31. Venture Capital: Friend or Foe for Talent Assessment?
Darko Lovric

32. Making Progress on Diversity: The Promise of Inclusive Leadership
Kathleen K. Lundquist and Robert E. Lewis

33. Themes and Directions
Douglas H. Reynolds, Tracy M. Kantrowitz, and John C. Scott