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Housekeeping New Readings are available Discussion Questions Assessing Creativity Behavioral and Situational Interviews GMA Judgmental Assessment of Job-related Experience On Measuring Teamwork Skills Understanding Affirmative Action Validation Strategies and Utility Discussion Questions Grades should be up tomorrow Largely done based on completion

Housekeeping Paper Grades Final Grades Everyone will receive track changes The level of detail will match the effort I see in your paper in addition to the practicality of including each comment. Comments will be developmental Final Grades I hope to post a final grade column sometime this week. I have to submit final grades by Monday

Final Comments It is up to you to remain competent (Buyer Beware) You should be highly critical when assessing the utility of tests and training programs What we consider evidence of causality is changing and is often “up” for debate. Are the results generalizable? Crap in, Crap out! Watch out for snack oil! Best practices often change Technology Advances in statistics and methodology Although we try to be empirical, sometimes we are liberal with our interpretation of the data Hot Topics One of our jobs is to narrow the focus of the audiences attention

Final Comments Be flexible & realistic with your expectations Simplicity is often best! It is easy to get inundated with information & analyses Dealing with raw data Especially true when communicating with people from different educational backgrounds Applied positions often come with an overwhelming number of factors that we need to take into account Start small and add incrementally Your may find your hands tied: try not to become cynical Do not get attached to a belief or a specific way of doing things Most results are difficult to replicate so remember short descriptions are often lacking but often become dogma Although we should be must be conscientious, we must also be decisive. We rarely have all the info we need thus….do your best!!