Fred Oswald
Associate Professor
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
will be affiliated
with Rice University, Department of Psychology, in fall 2008
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1999 - PhD,
Psychology, University of Minnesota
1997 - MA, Psychology, University of
Minnesota
1992 - BA, Psychology, University of
Texas at Austin
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Current research has an applied psychology focus,
including
- Modeling multitasking performance under
routine and non-routine (e.g., emergency) conditions, and predicting
multitasking performance from cognitive, motivational and personality
constructs. Applied work is with
Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology (NPRST). To learn more
about our research group in the Skilled Performance Laboratory (SPL), click
here.
- Broadening the domain of college student performance and developing new biographical data and situational judgment tests to
predict performance, for potential use in college admissions and student counseling
and development practices. To learn
more about our research group in the Group for Research and Assessment of
Student Potential (GRASP), click here.
- Additional substantive areas work include
examining alternative job
classification structures and multiple matching methods for
assessing person-job fit,
with 'fit' being a function of person and job information from different
psychological domains (e.g., personality, interests, aptitudes).
- Additional methodological areas of work
include meta-analysis, differential prediction in personnel selection, and
structural equation modeling.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS - (for
publications in PDF format click here)
Converse, P. D., Oswald,
F. L., Imus, A., Hedricks, C., Roy, R., & Butera, H. (in press). Comparing
personality test formats and warnings: Effects on criterion-related validity
and test-taker reactions. International Journal of Selection and Assessment.
Converse, P. D., Wolfe, E. W., Huang, X., & Oswald, F. L. (in press). Response
rates for mixed-mode surveys using mail and email/web. American Journal of
Evaluation.
Friede, A. J., Oswald, F.
L., Schmitt, N., Merritt, S., Imus, A., Kim, B., Shivpuri, S. (in press).
Estimating trait and situational variance in a situational judgment test. Human Performance.
Wessel, J. L., Ryan, A. M., & Oswald, F. L. (in press). The relationship between objective and
perceived fit with an academic major, adaptability, and major-related outcomes.
Journal of Vocational Behavior.
Schmitt, N., Oswald, F.
L., Friede, A., Imus, A., & Merrit, S. (in press). Perceived fit with
an academic environment: Attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior.
LeBreton, J., Griepentrog, B. , Hargis, M. B., Oswald, F. L., Ployhart, R. E. (2007).
A multidimensional approach for evaluating variables in organizational research
and practice. Personnel Psychology, 60, 475-498.
Hambrick, D. Z., Meinz, B., & Oswald, F. L. (2007). Individual differences in current events
knowledge: Contributions of ability, personality, and interests. Memory and Cognition, 35, 304-316.
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, 165-179.
Ramsay, L. J., Schmitt, N., Oswald,
F. L., Gillespie, M. A. (2006). The impact of situational context variables
in responses to situational judgment and biodata inventory items. Psychology Science, 48, 268-287.
Donnellan, M. B. *, Oswald,
F. L.*, Baird, B. M., & Lucas, R. E. (2006). The Mini-IPIP scales:
Tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five factors of personality. Psychological Assessment, 18, 192-203.
*order arbitrary
Hönekopp, J., Becker, B. J., & Oswald, F. L. (2006). The meaning and suitability of various effect
sizes for structured rater ´ ratee designs. Psychological
Methods, 11, 72-86.
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.
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.
TEACHING
PSY 295 - Data Analysis in
Psychological Research (undergraduate)
spring 2001 (honors), fall 2003,
spring 2006
PSY 395 - Design and Measurement
(undergraduate)
fall 2000, fall 2001, spring 2002,
fall 2002, fall 2003, fall 2004, fall 2005
PSY 860 - Advanced
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
fall 2005, fall 2007
PSY 864 - Personnel Selection
(graduate)
spring 2003, spring 2005
PSY 992 - Individual Differences
(graduate)
fall 2002, spring 2005
PSY 992 - Meta-Analysis: Concepts and
Applications (graduate)
fall 2001, spring 2008
