Fred Oswald - Associate Professor

Fred Oswald - Associate Professor

Rice University - Industrial/Organizational Psychology

office: 429F Sewall Hall

phone: (713)348-3908

fax: (713) 335-0674

e-mail: foswald@rice.edu

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

· Personality testing in personnel selection - considering psychometric characteristics (reliability), group differences (measurement invariance), and relationships with practical outcomes (validity) in organizational, military and academic settings.

· Non-cognitive test development, with work in developing biographical data and situational judgment tests to predict college student performance, for potential use in college admissions as well as student counseling and development settings. To learn more about my collaboration with the Group for Research and Assessment of Student Potential (GRASP), click here.

· Expanding selection approaches to include vocational interests, job classification, and person-job fit, with 'fit' being a function of person and job information from different psychological domains (e.g., personality, interests, aptitudes).

· Meta-analysis as it is used in organizational research.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Publications – In press

Poposki, E. M., & Oswald, F. L. (in press). The Multitasking Preference Inventory: Toward an improved measure of individual differences in polychronicity. Human Performance.

Oswald, F. L., & Plonsky, L. (in press). Meta-analysis in second-language research: Choices and challenges. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.

Oswald, F. L., & Hough, L. M. (in press). Personality and its assessment: Measurement, validity and modeling. In S. Zedeck (Ed.), APA handbook of industrial and organizational psychology. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Johnson, J. W., & Oswald, F. L. (in press). Use of test scores. In J. L. Farr & N. T. Tippins (Eds.), Handbook of employee selection. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Sinha, R., Oswald, F., Imus, A., & Schmitt, N. (in press). Criterion-focused approach to reducing adverse impact in college admissions. Applied Measurement in Education.

Kim, B. H., & Oswald, F. L. (in press). Clarifying the concept and context of content validation. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice,

Hambrick, D. Z., Oswald, F. L., Darowski, E. S., Rench, T. A., & Brou, R. (in press). Predictors of multitasking performance in a synthetic work paradigm. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Schmitt, N., Keeney, J., Oswald, F. L., Pleskac, T., Quinn, A., Sinha, R., & Zorzie, M. (in press). Prediction of four-year college student performance using cognitive and noncognitive predictors and the impact of demographic status on admitted students. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Publications – Peer-reviewed

Friede, A. J., Oswald, F. L., Schmitt, N., Merritt, S., Imus, A., Kim, B., Shivpuri, S. (2009). Estimating trait and situational variance in a situational judgment test. Human Performance, 22, 44-63.

Wolfe, E. W., Converse, P. D., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). Item-level non-response rates in an attitudinal survey of teachers delivered via mail and web. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14, 35-66.

Oswald, F. L. (2008). Global personality norms: Multicultural, multinational, and managerial. International Journal of Testing, 8, 400-408.

Oswald, F. L. & Hough, L. M. (2008). Personality testing and I-O psychology: A productive exchange and some future directions. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 323-332.

Hough, L. M., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). Personality testing and I-O psychology: Reflections, progress and prospects. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 1, 272-290.

Hambrick, D. Z., Pink, J. E., Meinz, E. J., Pettibone, J. C., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). The roles of ability, personality, and interests in acquiring current events knowledge: A longitudinal study. Intelligence, 36, 261-278.

Miller, T. P., Oswald, F. L., & Reeves, M. J. (2008). An exploration of factors underlying asthma care and morbidity: A factor analysis of clinical variables. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 122, 328-334.

Wessel, J. L., Ryan, A. M., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). The relationship between objective and perceived fit with an academic major, adaptability, and major-related outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 72, 363-376.

Converse, P. D., Oswald, F. L., Imus, A., Hedricks, C., Roy, R., & Butera, H. (2008). Comparing personality test formats and warnings: Effects on criterion-related validity and test-taker reactions. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 16, 155-169.

Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., Friede, A., Imus, A., & Merritt, S. (2008). Perceived fit with an academic environment: Attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 72, 317-355.

Converse, P. D., Wolfe, E. W., Huang, X., & Oswald, F. L. (2008). Response rates for mixed-mode surveys using mail and email/web. American Journal of Evaluation, 29, 99-107.