SIOP Foundation Visionary Circle members are now voting on their final choice for the first-ever $100,000 Visionary Circle grant. Voting closes on April 23, 2020 at 11:59 pm EDT.

Current plans are for the members of the Visionary Circle to learn the voting results at a webinar on April 29, 2020, and for a SIOP Virtual Conference session to share information about the process and results more broadly. The conference will be held June 16-30, 2020.

Game-based assessment (GBA) and gamification of assessments have emerged as promising directions for applied measurement. Both merge the science of high-quality psychometric assessment with research from the interdisciplinary field of human-computer interaction and games research.

The gamification of assessment involves the redesign of existing assessments by adding game elements, whereas GBA promises fully formed start-to-finish assessment experiences in which a game is played and won or lost, and the scores produced by that game can be used meaningfully.  Relatively little research is available evaluating gamified assessment or GBA, particularly in applied contexts with rigorous methodology, thus the focus of the present CFP.

The Online Industrial Organizational Psychology program at Saint Peter’s allows students to be employed full-time while also advancing their education and careers.

Our unique program offers students a high-quality education at an affordable price. The 36-credit degree provides you with the training to improve workplace performance and the know-how to analyze big data in a business setting. We have two-track options available (MS or MA degree). Both programs follow a scientist-practitioner model by focusing on scientific and empirical research to help solve problems in organizations. As a full-time student or working professional, you can finish your degree in as fast as 15 months. Set yourself apart with a graduate degree that prepares you to become a leader in a global world.

Radford University offers both the MA and MS in I-O Psychology.  As a long standing, respected program with distinguished alumni, RU I-O requires 37 credits over 21 months through small, face-to-face courses.  We offer a balance of “I” and “O” with a heavy emphasis on client projects and applications of data science.  More information can be found at https://www.radford.edu/content/chbs/home/psychology/programs/industrial-organizational.html or by contacting nreilly@radford.edu .  Please share this notice with prospective students. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered many aspects of work and nonwork life, with both short-term and likely long-term effects. There are many potential ways that the science of applied psychology can contribute to the public good and enhance our understanding of how COVID-19 has affected employees, leaders, teams, families, organizations as well as the communities in which these groups reside in. The faster that we can bring our scientific evidence to others, the more we can help.

The Journal of Applied Psychology (http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/apl/) invites quantitative and qualitative papers directly related to the pandemic. To be clear, the goal of this Call for Papers is to understand work- and employment-related phenomena associated with the COVID- 19 pandemic. Therefore, although data collected prior to COVID-19 could be used for comparison or linkage purposes, we are interested in research that directly informs our scientific understanding of the COVID-19 experience. To ensure relevance beyond COVID-19, we expect all submissions to discuss the implications of their findings beyond the current crisis in some manner.