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Are there personality correlates with OPIEWeb use?

In a past life, I used to keep a box of articles that were suitable for students doing a capstone project in methods and stats. Here is on the personality of blogging. It would be …
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Is there value in taking psycho-bio or clinical courses for IO Psychology students?

Some schools require students to take a certain number of courses that are specific to one branch of psychology or another regardless of whether the students' interest lies in that …
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How can I find the differentiating factor between 2 groups?

I have a dataset of student outcomes from a longitudinal data collection. Some of the students went into what we are calling "remediation" and some did not. I have been tasked with …
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Academic or Practitioner?

I have been an assistant professor for a few years now and have recently been offered an applied position that is a perfect fit with my interests with a substantial pay increase. …
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Curving Student Exam Grades - Yes or No?

Here's a question for all you instructors out there: Do you curve student exam grades? If not, why not? If so, why? And if so, how exactly do you do it? I'm looking for specif …
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How can we get students more involved with work psychology outside of the classroom?

What are some assignments or exercises that you have used in the past which help to get students involved in work psychology outside of the classroom? I am looking for ideas that …
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What is the correct (APA) style for citing a blog entry?

I want to be able to discuss blog topics in my intro and/or discussion sections. How do I cite information from a blog post? What if the author uses a pseudonym?
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Can we put our money where our mouth is?

Question time: serious question time. IO psychology has been around for 100 years or so. What can we offer to businesses and other enterprises with any confidence? Can we name 1 …
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Work/life distinctions in value systems

Hello folks, I am interested in finding any recent work that compares, within subjects, the ranking of values (using an instrument like the Rokeach Value Survey) in the workplace …
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What lessons from employee evaluations can be applied to evaluating students?

As discussed in this blog post, what can we take away from the business world when it comes to evaluating student performance?
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Un-weighted Average

I have a data set with three groups of respondents (Managers, Senior Supervisors, and Junior Supervisors). I need to calculate an un-weighted average for a scale score. I need an …
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Is it wrong to shift classroom emphasis towards information literacy at the expense of facts?

Related to this blog post, there is an active tug of war going on in classrooms between the utility of learning information in and of itself and learning what to do with it. We hav …
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How to develop a writing sample test?

I have a client who is requesting a pre-employment test for measuring candidates' writing skills. I'm in the process of outlining various options, ranging from multiple choice test …
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Using Polygraphs for Selection Purposes?

What are people's thoughts on using polygraphs as part of the selection process?
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Is the OpenID login we use at OPIEWeb too difficult to bother with?

As discussed in this blog post, OPIEWeb uses a third-party tool for handling site log in called OpenID. It's starting to become more common out there in the wilds of the Internet, …

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