Applied Measurement: Industrial Psychology in Human Resources Management
Deborah L. Whetzel, PhDis a Manager, Leadership Assessment, Processes and Systems at the U.S. Postal Service. Prior to joining the Postal Service, she was a Principal for Work Skills First, Inc. where she directed or conducted research on projects dealing with job analysis and competency model development, test development, research, and implementation, and performance appraisal development for both private and public sector clients. While at the American Institutes for Research, Dr. Whetzel led the item development of form assembly work for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT). In this role, she trained item editors on how to screen and edit items and to assemble MCAT forms to be administered to examinees. She also worked on the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) in which she wrote and edited skills and their definitions for presentation to subject matter experts.  Her work has been presented at professional conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. She received her PhD from George Washington University.George R. Wheatonis recently retired, having spent his professional career with the American Institutes for Research (A.I.R.) in Washington, DC. He received his A.B. degree in psychology from Bowdoin College (1961) and his M.Sc. in clinical psychology from McGill University (1963). While at A.I.R. he conducted, directed, and managed a variety of I/O psychological research activities first as a project director, then as Vice President and Director of the Washington Research Center, and most recently as the corporation's Vice President for Quality Assurance. His research interests have included taxonomies of performance, individual differences, and application of job and task analysis methods to transfer of training phenomena and development of criterion performance measures for individuals and teams.