Publications
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LATEST COLLEGE BOARD REPORT - Summer 2009
Schmitt et al (2009).Report of the First-Year Follow-up of College Applicants at Twelve Universities. Submitted to College Board on 09/01/2009.
Schmitt, N., Billington, A., Keeney, J., Oswald, F. L., Pleskac, T. J., Sinha, R., & Zorzie, M. (in press). Prediction of Four-Year College Student Performance using Cognitive and Noncognitive Predictors and the Impact on Demographic Status of Admitted Students. Journal of Applied Psychology.
Pleskac, T. J., Keeney, J., Merritt, S. M., Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L. (under review). Modeling College Withdrawal Decisions.
Sinha, R., Oswald, F., Imus, A., & Schmitt, N. (in press). Criterion-focused approach to reducing adverse impact in college admissions. Applied Measurement in Education.
Imus, A., Schmitt, N., Kim, B., Drzakowski, S., & Friede, A. (in press). Differential item functioning in biodata: A theory driven approach to a priori predictions of gender- and race-related DIF. Applied Measurement in Education.
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, 317-335.
Kim, B. H., Schmitt, N., Imus, A. L., Oswald, F. L., Merritt, S. M., Friede, A. J., & Shivpuri, S. Interpreting Differential Functioning in a Situational Judgment Test: A Matter of Differential Access to Opportunities. Unpublished manuscript.
Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., Kim, B. H., Imus, A., Drzakowski, S., Friede, A., & Shivpuri, S. (2007). The use of background and ability profiles to predict college student outcomes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 165-180.
Schmitt, N. (2008). The interaction of neuroticism and gender and its impact on self-efficacy and performance. Human Performance, 21, 49-61.
Ramsay, L. J., Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., Kim, B. H., & Gillespie, M. A. (2006). The impact of situational context variables on responses to biodata and situational judgment inventory items. Psychology Science, 48(3), 268-287.
Schmitt, N., & Oswald, F. L. (2006). The impact of corrections for faking on the validity of noncognitive measures in selection settings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91, 613-621.
Shivpuri, S., Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., & Kim, B. H. (2006). Individual differences in academic growth: Do they exist, and can we predict them? Journal of College Student Development, 47, 69-86.
Oswald, F. L., Friede, A. J., Schmitt, N., Kim, B. K., & Ramsay, L. J. (2005). Extending a practical method for developing alternate test forms using independent sets of items. Organizational Research Methods, 8, 149-164.
Oswald, F. L., Schmitt, N., Kim, B. H., Ramsay, L. J., & Gillespie, M. A. (2004). Developing a biodata measure and situational judgment inventory as predictors of college student performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 187-207.
Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., Kim, B. H., Gillespie, M. A., & Ramsay, L. J. (2004). The impact of justice and self-serving bias explanations for the perceived fairness of different types of selection tests in college admissions. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 12, 160-171.
Schmitt, N., Gillespie, M., Kim, B., Manheim, L., Oswald, F., & Yoo, T. Y. (2003) Impact of elaboration on social desirability and the validity of Biodata Measures. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 979-989.
Schmitt, N., Oswald, F. L., & Gillespie, M. A. (2005).
Implications of broadening the performance domain for the prediction of academic success.
In W. F. Camara and E. Kimmel (Eds.). Choosing students: Higher Education
Admission Tools for the 21st Century (pp. 195-214). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.