Foundations of Psychological Testing A Practical Approach Sixth Edition by Leslie A. Miller

Principles of Psychological Testing An Applied Approach Sixth Edition by Leslie A. Miller

1. ISBN-10

   1506396402
2. ISBN-13

   978-1506396408

3. Leslie A. Miller, PhD, SHRM-CP, PHR, possesses wide experience in consulting, teaching, and researching in the field of organizational and educational evaluation, measurement, and enhancement. Currently managing her own consulting business, LanneM TM, LLC, she offers her clients with practical and cost-effective talent management solutions to help them acquire, develop, and retain the talent they need to achieve desired business outcomes. Her skills include devising performance improvement and management tools and knowledge tests, tailoring and conducting leadership training programs, offering assessment-based executive coaching, and creating and executing business impact analysis and return-on-investment studies. She also devotes her time as a part-time faculty teaching organizational behavior and psychology, research, and human resources courses at Rollins College, the University of Oklahoma, and at the University of Advanced Studies at the University of Phoenix. Additionally, she supervises doctoral dissertations. Previously acting as the vice president of leadership development and human resources at the Central Florida YMCA, she was responsible for contributing to the strategic plans of the organization by leading the association’s talent management initiatives―recruiting, developing, and retaining the association’s talent. Prior to joining the YMCA, she was employed by Wilson Learning Company (WLC), a performance improvement organization, where she worked as the director of business solutions, a senior project manager, and a business solutions consultant. In these roles, she was accountable for visualizing, designing, managing, and implementing traditional and technology-based assessment, measurement, and training performance improvement solutions for client organizations.

   Before starting at WLC, Dr. Miller served as the assistant dean of admissions at Rollins College, where she also held a faculty position in the psychology, organizational behavior, and human resources programs. Prior to her tenure at Rollins College, she worked as a senior research psychologist for the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, in Washington, D.C. At the bureau, she formulated, researched, and analyzed the findings of some of our country’s most critical surveys. In her present and past roles, she has collaborated with various prominent organizations in the high-tech, financial, pharmaceutical, and transportation sectors. With a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Maryland, she holds an extensive publication and presentation record. She is a member of the APA, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Society for Human Resource Management.

    

   Robert L. Lovler, PhD, has more than three decades of experience operating as both an internal and an external consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the areas of employee evaluation and selection, organizational development, strategic human resource consulting, and training design and delivery. His professional journey commenced at CBS Inc., where he held various positions, including director of training for the retail consumer electronics unit, before advancing to the vice president position in two different units within the CBS Publishing Group. He currently serves as senior vice president of global human resources at Wilson Learning Company, a global consulting firm concentrating on human performance enhancement. Throughout his career, he has had the opportunity to devise and implement a diverse array of organizational interventions both domestically and internationally, operating in Japan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, England, and Italy. In the United States, he supervised the creation and execution of the assessment center used to select candidates for entry into the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Senior Executive Service Development Program, presenting the outcomes in Washington, D.C., to Christine Todd Whitman, the EPA administrator. He also designed the system used to aid in selecting commercial airline pilots for a major U.S. airline and collaborated with former senator Warren Rudman to develop and launch a nationwide survey of sales practices in the rent-to-own industry. He has served as a testing consultant to the California Bar Association and the state of Pennsylvania, and he oversaw the development of the licensure examinations for medical physicists in the state of Texas. He has held teaching positions at the State University of New York at Farmingdale and as adjunct faculty at Hofstra University and the University of Central Florida. Dr. Lovler earned his BA degree in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Hofstra University. He is a member of the APA and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.