{"id":6289,"date":"2023-07-19T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humrro.org\/corpsite\/?p=6289"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T19:00:17","slug":"the-criterion-still-matters-humrro-scientists-contribute-to-selection-and-classification-research-in-special-issue-of-military-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humrro.org\/corpsite\/news\/the-criterion-still-matters-humrro-scientists-contribute-to-selection-and-classification-research-in-special-issue-of-military-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Still Matters! HumRRO Scientists Contribute to Selection and Classification Research in Special Issue of Military Psychology<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

HumRRO Principal Scientist Deirdre Knapp, Ph.D., recently co-edited and contributed to the special issue, \u201cSelection and Classification Research: The Criterion Still Matters,\u201d of Military Psychology<\/em>, the bimonthly journal of Division 19 (Society for Military Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. Knapp brings to the issue her decades of experience conducting testing-related research, as well as designing and managing complex, large-scale validation, selection, and classification efforts for the U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI).<\/p>\n

\u201cCriterion identification and measurement is a critical component of the selection and classification process,\u201d wrote Knapp in the issue\u2019s introduction with co-author, Michael G. Rumsey, Ph.D., former chief of the Personnel Assessment Research Unit at ARI. \u201cIt ensures that the decisions regarding who should serve and in what capacity are made based on tests demonstrably linked to one or more important organizational objectives. Accordingly, proper criterion identification and measurement supports military effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite its focus on the military setting, this special issue of Military Psychology<\/em> has a great deal of content generalizable to the larger world of work and associated research on talent management.<\/p>\n

In support of one of the pillars of HumRRO\u2019s mission as a nonprofit\u2014advancing the science\u2014several other current (as well as former) staff contributed to the special issue:<\/p>\n