Testing and Assessment

Are Six Heads as Good as Twelve?: Psychologists show how justice is better served by larger juries.

Assessment Centers Help Companies Identify Future Managers: Psychologists transform a military method for evaluating spy candidates into an accurate predictor of managerial potential for industry and local governments.

Increasing Student Success through Instruction for Self-Determination: An enormous amount of research shows the importance of self-determination (i.e., autonomy) for students in elementary school through college for enhancing learning and improving important post-school outcomes.

Improving Employment Interviews: Psychologists help transform employment interviews from a nearly worthless experience into one that does a good job of predicting job performance.

Intelligence and Achievement Testing: Is the Half Full Glass Getting Fuller? More research is needed to try to ensure that IQ and achievement tests are used to maximize learning opportunities for all students.

See Brain. See Brain Read: Psychological science can help more kids learn to read. Scientists are using new brain imaging technology to study what happens in the brain when children read.

Scanning the brain: New technologies shed light on anatomy, activity.

Stereotype threat widens achievement gap: Reminders of stereotyped inferiority hurt test scores.

The Truth About Lie Detectors (aka Polygraph Tests): Most psychologists agree that there is little evidence that polygraph tests can accurately detect lies.

Think Again: Men and Women Share Cognitive Skills: Psychologists have gathered solid evidence that boys and girls or men and women differ in very few significant ways -- differences that would matter in school or at work -- in how, and how well, they think.

Who is the Best Person for the Job?: Psychologists find a way to link individual differences with success in the workplace