Some Papers. Publications, etc.
Wiesen (2024)
- SIOP 2024 Conference, Chicago, IL, April 18, 2024.
- Master Tutorial: Content Validity Court Decision: Tatum, 2022; An Insider’s Analysis and Insights
- Related Court Cases
Wiesen (2023)
- IPAC 2023 Conference, Washington, D.C., 7/25/2023.
- Content Validity Court Case (Tatum, 2022): An Insider's View and Analysis (PowerPoints 6 per page, horizontal)
- Content Validity Court Case (Tatum, 2022): An Insider's View and Analysis (MP3 audio file)
Wiesen (2022)
- Fall 2022 GLEAN Learning Event, virtual, 10/26/2022.
- Multiple Ways to Increase Both Diversity and Expected Job Performance in Hiring and Promoting Police Officers (PowerPoints 4 per page)
Wiesen (2022)
- IPAC 2022 Conference, San Diego, CA, 7/20/2022.
- Curiosities, Pitfalls, and Practical Tips Learned During 45 Years of Work in Testing (PowerPoints 4 per page)
Wiesen (2022)
- IPAC 2022 Conference, San Diego, CA, 7/19/2022.
- Multiple Ways to Increase Both Diversity and Expected Job Performance in Hiring and Promoting Police Officers (PowerPoints 4 per page)
Wiesen (2021)
- New York State Psychological Association, 83rd Annual Convention, October 15, 2021
- Effective Psychometric and Administrative Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (PowerPoints 6 per page)
- Effective Psychometric and Administrative Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (on YouTube)
- Effective Psychometric and Administrative Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Video, MP4 format)
- Effective Psychometric and Administrative Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Video, wmv format)
Wiesen (2021)
- Society for Police and Criminal Psychology 46th Annual Conference, September-October, 2021
- Industrial Psychology Approaches to Improve Police Officer Supervision and Performance Evaluation (PowerPoints 6 per page)
- Industrial Psychology Approaches to Improve Police Officer Supervision and Performance Evaluation (Video, wmv format)
- Reenvisioning Entry-Level and Promotional Selection to Improve Both Diversity and Job Performance (Powerpoints, 6 per page)
- Reenvisioning Entry-Level and Promotional Selection to Improve Both Diversity and Job Performance (Video, wmv format)
Wiesen (2021)
- IPAC 2021 Virtual Conference, 7/28/2021.
- Selection by Non-psychometricians: An Actual, Absurd Case Study
- Selection by Non-psychometricians: An Actual, Absurd Case Study (MP3 audio file)
Wiesen (2021)
- IPAC 2021 Virtual Conference, 7/26/2021.
- Select Tests Based on Utility to Maintain Job Performance and Reduce Adverse Impact (PowerPoint slides)
- Select Tests Based on Utility to Maintain Job Performance and Reduce Adverse Impact (MP3 audio file)
Wiesen (2021)
- IPAC 2021 Virtual Conference, 7/26/2021.
- BARS Rater-Reliability: Levels and Implications
Wiesen (2021)
- Assessment Council News. January, 14-20
- Police Officer Selection Is Broken and We Can Fix It.
Wiesen (2020)
- Society for Police and Criminal Psychology 46th Annual Conference, November, 2020
- Short summary of both presentations on effective ways to improve police job performance and hire more minority police officers (in the form of the initial proposals)
- The 3 Best Administrative Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Poster)
- The 3 Best Administrative Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Audio)
- The 3 Best Psychometric Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Powerpoint, 3 per page)
- The 3 Best Psychometric Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Movie with powerpoints and audio, MP4 file)
- The 3 Best Psychometric Approaches to Maximize Diversity in Hiring Police Officers (Movie with powerpoints and audio, WMV file)
Wiesen (2020)
- Blacks in I/O Psychology Community Call #3, 6/29/2020 (A panel discussion).
- Enough is Enough: Addressing Systemic Issues in Law Enforcement Workplaces (video) (a Zoom meeting, now on YouTube)
- Slides (with takeaways)
- Blacks in I/O website, with short introduction and speaker list
- Blacks in I/O chat box transcript
Wiesen (2019)
- IPAC 2019 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 7/17/2019.
- Tools to Hire Qualified Minority Police Officers.
Wiesen (2019)
- IPAC 2019 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 7/16/2019.
- The New (2018) SIOP Principles: Content, History, Perspective.
Wiesen (2018)
- SIOP 2018 Conference, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2018.
- Master Tutorial: Tools to Increase Diversity, Utility, and Validity in Hiring Police Officers
Wiesen (2017)
- IPAC 2017 Conference, Birmingham, AL, July 19, 2017 (updated 8/20/2017).
- Quantitative Considerations in Balancing Validity, Utility, Fairness, and Adverse Impact
Wiesen (2017)
- Third in a mini-series of columns in the Newsletter of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington, July, 2017.
- Tools to Increase Diversity and Validity in Hiring Police Officers - Part III
Wiesen (2017)
- Second in a mini-series of columns in the Newsletter of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington, March, 2017.
- Tools to Increase Diversity and Validity in Hiring Police Officers - Part II
Wiesen (2016)
- First in a mini-series of columns in the Newsletter of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington, November, 2016.
- Tools to Increase Diversity and Validity in Hiring Police Officers - Part I
Wiesen (2015)
- Presentation at the 2015 annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Atlanta, GA, 8/21/2015.
- Test Construction Guidance in the New (2014) Testing Standards (Note, this takes a few seconds to load.)
Wiesen (2014)
- Invited speaker at the May meeting of the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington (PTC/MW), Arlington, VA, 5/21/2014.
- NYC's Firefighter Exams in Federal Court, as Seen by One of the Plaintiffs' Experts
- Judge Garaufis' 2009 Memorandum and Order and the some related material are here: related documents.
Wiesen (2011)
- IPAC 2011 Conference, Washington, D.C., July 19, 2011.
- A Word Frequency Index of Word Familiarity: A Tool for Item Writers.
Wiesen (2011)
- IPAC 2011 Conference, Washington, D.C., July 18, 2011.
- Opportunities to Improve Testing Research and Practice.
Wiesen and Aguinis (2010)
- SIOP 2010 Conference, Atlanta, GA, 4/9/2010.
- New Methods for Reducing Adverse Impact and Preserving Validity
Wiesen (2010)
- A Feature Article in The Industrial Organizational Psychologist (TIP) , Volume 47, Number 4, April 2010.
- A Hypothetical, Novel Employee Selection System to Reduce Adverse Impact and Improve Job Performance for Fire Lieutenant: Musings of a Practitioner
Wiesen (2009)
- Invited address presented at the Fall Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Personnel Assessment Council (MAPAC), Albany, NY, 11/5/2009.
- The Recent Judicial Decision Concerning Two NYC Firefighter Exams
Wiesen (2008)
- 107th Annual APA Convention, Boston, MA, 08/14/2008.
- Six Alternative Methods of Use of Employee Selection Test Data (poster exhibits)
Wiesen (2007)
- 31st Annual IPMAAC Conference, St. Louis, MO, 06/11/2007.
- Possible New Approaches to Reduce Adverse Impact
Wiesen (2006)
- Invited address presented at the Fall Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Personnel Assessment Council (MAPAC), Princeton, NJ, 11/16/2006.
- Thinking Outside the Box in Merit Selection
Wiesen (2006)
- Invited address presented at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers/National College for DUI Defense Seminar, Las Vegas, NV, 10/12/2006.
- Limitations and Flaws in the Research Supporting Field Sobriety Tests
Wiesen (2006)
- 30th Annual IPMAAC Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 06/26/2006.
- Thinking Outside the Box in Merit Selection (pdf version)
- Benefits, Drawbacks, and Pitfalls of z-Score Weighting (pdf version)
Wiesen (2002)
- Second Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture's Diversity Challenge Conference, Boston, MA, 10/11/2002.
- Session Title: Racial and Cultural Group Differences on Cognitive Ability Tests
- Presentation Title: Some Possible Reasons for the Black-White Mean Score Differences Seen With Many Cognitive Ability Tests
- Possible Reasons for the Black-White Mean Score Differences Seen With Many Cognitive Ability Tests (updated and expanded version)
Wiesen (2002)
- 17th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Toronto, Canada, 4/14/2002.
- Session Title: Developing Defensible Written Test Questions: Art, Science, and Some Guidelines
- Presentation Title: Review of Written, Multiple-Choice Test Items, with Some Emphasis on Cultural Bias
- Handout One: Guidelines and Suggestions for Avoiding Cultural Bias in Multiple-Choice Test Questions
- Expanded Version of Handout One: Guidelines and Suggestions for Avoiding Cultural Bias in Multiple-Choice Test Questions
- General Guidelines for Writing/Review of Multiple-Choice Test Questions
Wiesen (2001)
- 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; San Diego, California, 4/27/2001.
- Session Title: Reducing Adverse Impact While Maintaining Validity: The Public Sector Experience
- Presentation Title: Some Possible Reasons for Adverse Impact
- Possible Reasons for the Black-White Mean Score Differences Seen With Many Cognitive Ability Tests (updated and expanded version)
Wiesen (2000)
- A novel promotional examination design to reduce adverse impact and improve job performance
- The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist , 47, 21-26.
- A Hypothetical, Novel Employee Selection System to Reduce Adverse Impact and Improve Job Performance for Fire Lieutenant: Musings of a Practitioner