Frank L. Schmidt

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Frank L. Schmidt is a retired American psychology professor known for his work in personnel selection and employment testing. Schmidt is a researcher in the area of industrial and organizational psychology with the most number of publications in the two major journals in the 1980s.[1] In the 1990s he was the 4th most published researcher in Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP) and Personnel Psychology (PP), the two principal publications in the field of industrial-organizational psychology.[1] He is also winner of the first Dunnette Prize, the most prestigious lifetime achievement award given by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology "to honor living individuals whose work has significantly expanded knowledge of the causal significance of individual differences through advanced research, development, and/or application" [2]

He is well known for his research on the development and application of validity generalization methods. These methods estimate the predictive validity of employment tests. This research has demonstrated that these validities generalize across organizations and job settings. Schmidt also developed psychometric meta-analysis methods used in a wide variety of research areas. He also testifies as an expert witness specializing in employment selection.

Career

Schmidt earned his BA in Psychology from Bellarmine College in 1966, then attended Purdue University to study industrial psychology, earning an M.S. in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he was Assistant Professor of Industrial Psychology, Michigan State University, earning tenure and serving as an Associate Professor until 1974. He was Research Professor of Industrial Psychology at George Washington University from spring 1976 to fall 1985. During that time he was Visiting Professor, Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney, Australia, in 1982. Schmidt is currently the Gary C. Fethke Chair in Leadership, Department of Management and Organizations in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1985.

He authored a textbook on meta-analysis with John E. Hunter titled Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings.

In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal.[3][4]

Awards and recognition

He has served on the editorial boards of

Students have included Ken Pearlman, Mike A. McDaniel (Virginia Commonwealth University), Ken Law (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Deniz Ones (University of Minnesota), Vish Viswesvaran (Florida International University), Kevin Carlson (Virginia Tech), Huy Le (University of Nevada-Las Vegas), In-Sue Oh (Temple University), Jonathan Shaffer (West Texas A&M University) and Ben Postlethwaite (Pepperdine University).

Selected bibliography

He (co)authored about 200 research papers in journals and presented at the academic conferences about 300 times. His work has been cited more than 8,000 times as of 2006. He is still active in teaching and research.

References

  1. 1 2 Ones, DS & Viswesvaran, C. (2000). Most Published Authors in Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology During the 1990s.
  2. ↑ http://www.siop.org/SiopAwards/Dunnette.aspx
  3. ↑ Gottfredson, Linda (December 13, 1994). Mainstream Science on Intelligence. Wall Street Journal, p A18.
  4. ↑ Frank L. Schmidt profile via University of Iowa
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