The Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO)
HumRRO has a long, rich history of providing solutions to a variety of challenges, including human capital, educational, training, measurement, survey assessments, and more.
Our staff work with clients to help resolve their “people” issues and improve their human capital management. Through our research, program evaluation, and policy analysis, HumRRO has supported a wide variety of federal and state agencies as well as corporate and nonprofit organizations, and foundations. We are dedicated to excellence in everything we do, drawing on the qualities that have long contributed to our success: competence, objectivity, professionalism, character, integrity, energy, and commitment. We also are committed to understanding and meeting our clients’ needs and expectations, and developing a lasting partnership with them.
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HumRRO is an industry leader in developing best practice solutions exclusively for each and every client.
We are proud of our strong track record of working collaboratively with clients and other vendors. Our talented staff leverages their extensive knowledge and experience to develop targeted solutions that are used operationally and to conduct relevant research that informs policy. We are committed to understanding and meeting our clients’ needs and expectations, and developing a lasting partnership with them. Since we believe one size never fits all, we approach each problem by listening, learning, and then designing solutions to address our clients’ needs.
Latest News & Updates
Susan D’Mello, Ph.D., Named Chair of SIOP’s New Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Committee
Susan D’Mello, Ph.D., senior research scientist at HumRRO, was recently named chair of the newly formed Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Committee (DIAC) for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). DIAC seeks to raise awareness of “issues of [...]
Evidence- and Experience-Based Best Practices: Situational Judgment Tests
Researchers at HumRRO have produced one of the first-ever, practitioner-oriented guides on developing situational judgment tests (SJTs). Drawing on scientific literature and their own extensive research and real-world experience developing and implementing SJTs in high-stakes assessment contexts for public [...]
Integrating Disciplines ‘Distinguishes’ Beth Bynum’s Young Career
For a profession that relies on data and applied research, Bethany Bynum, Ph.D., manager at HumRRO, may be proof-positive that you can make a huge impact in a short period of time in the industrial-organizational psychology field. For her [...]
Advancing Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute
HumRRO Vice President David Dorsey, Ph.D., had the honor of serving on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Foreign Language Assessment and contributing to its recently published report, A Principled Approach to Language Assessment: Considerations [...]
Evaluating Student Readiness Without Required Promotion Assessments
Many states use assessments to qualify students’ promotion from one grade to the next. This practice is typically implemented between third grade and fourth grade to identify potential student learning gaps early, but some states, such as Georgia, require [...]
Canceled Assessments for the Class of 2020 — Implications and Options
As students in the United States practice social distancing to curtail the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, high school seniors are missing out on one of the rites of becoming an adult. Most will not get to march with [...]