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Examining Evidence for Leaderboards and Learning
As I described in my last post, gamification is often misused and abused, applied in ways and in situations where it is unlikely to do much good. When we deploy new learning technologies, the ultimate...
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Top 20 Most Prolific Presenters at SIOP 2015
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology is the primary organizational affiliation for industrial/organizational psychologists, and its annual conference has a substantial impact each...
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Grade Predictor Add-in for Blackboard Learn
If you teach college classes like I do, around this time of year you begin to get an astonishing number of emails of the “Can I pass?” and “What do I need to get some arbitrary grade I’ve decided is a...
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SIOP 2015: Schedule Planning for Big Data, Mobile, and Gamification
As in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014, I’ll be live-blogging the SIOP conference, which begins Thursday, April 23 and runs through Saturday, April 25.2015 turns out to be a banner year for Big Data....
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SIOP 2015: Live Blog Archive
The 2015 Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology conference has concluded, and I am honestly still reeling a bit! Below is an archive of my Twitter activity during the conference (much like I...
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SIOP 2015: Reflections Part 1, on Big Data
Somehow, every year, SIOP rises a little bit in intensity for me. There are a few more sessions I need to attend, a few more people I need to connect with, and a few more drinks I need to space out...
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SIOP 2015: Reflections Part 2, on Innovation
This continues my thoughts on SIOP 2015 about Big Data. In that article, I described how I/O psychologists can meaningfully position themselves as the “meaning-makers” of Big Data. But what I worry...
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Grad School: Managing a Career Change to I/O Psychology
Grad School Series: Applying to Graduate School in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Starting Sophomore Year: Should I get a Ph.D. or Master’s? | How to Get Research Experience Starting Junior Year:...
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How Will #MTurkGate Affect the Validity of Research?
If you haven’t heard by now, #MTurkGate refers to a sudden up-to-400% fee increase by Amazon on MTurk Requesters hiring MTurk Workers to do work on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Or more specifically,...
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Did Home-Owning Millennials All Get Help from Their Parents?
Occasionally, I see an article in the press that is just so ridiculously misleading in how it treats statistics that I think: “Wow, what a teachable moment.” This is one such moment.The Atlantic...
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Torture, the APA, and I/O Psychology
If you haven’t heard by now, based upon several independent investigations and public accusations of wrongdoing, the American Psychological Association commissioned a law firm to create what is...
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Grad School: Pursuing an I/O PhD with an Existing Master’s
Grad School Series: Applying to Graduate School in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Starting Sophomore Year: Should I get a Ph.D. or Master’s? | How to Get Research Experience Starting Junior Year:...
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Gamification Works a Lot Like Goal-Setting
One of the most common forms of gamification is the use of leaderboards. Despite their bad press, leaderboards are commonly used to direct people to achieve specific target goals while motivating them...
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Gender Bias in Psychology Graduate Degrees
A few days ago, I was looking at numbers from the National Center for Education Statistics in order to get a better sense of the gender bias in some STEM fields. Specifically, as part of a grant...
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Upcoming Reddit AMA about I/O Psychology Graduate School Applications
As a companion to my grad school series, I will be hosting a week-long AMA in the IO Psychology subreddit. Although it’s an AMA, I suspect that most of my time will be spent responding to questions...
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IO Psychology Journals That Are Fixing IO Psychology
One of the most significant challenges currently facing IO psychology researchers is ensuring the relevance of our research to real-world HR and OD practices. Unfortunately, over the last few decades,...
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Top Ten I-O Workplace Trends for 2016
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) has once again released its top ten list of anticipated top workplace trends for 2016 based upon a vote of the current SIOP membership....
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Gamify Online Blackboard Courses with Quick, Fun Polls
From my research on gamification, one of the major conclusions that I’ve come to is that gamification must be implemented for a reason. Blindly throwing game elements into a course without carefully...
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Who Owns Copyright on Recorded Lectures?
The matter of who owns the copyright for a recorded lecture is not a simple one. The key issue here is that a faculty member’s institution may consider lectures “work for hire” and thus owned by the...
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I/O Psychology Graduate School Webinar on March 22
Upcoming webinar this coming Tuesday, March 22, 2016! In it, I will be moderating a discussion about graduate school in I/O psychology put on by the Society for Industrial and Organizational...
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