Nambury S. Raju Lecture Series: "What's In a Sample?"

KURT KRAIGER, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

"WHAT’S IN A SAMPLE? COMPARISON OF PARTICIPANT CHARACTERISTICS AND MODEL FIT ACROSS ORGANIZATIONAL, STUDENT, MTURK, AND QUALTRICS SAMPLES"

The Fall 2015 lecture will feature Professor of Psychology Kurt Kraiger from Colorado State University. His talk will be titled, "What’s in a Sample? Comparison of Participant Characteristics and Model Fit across Organizational, Student, mTurk, and Qualtrics Samples," and will take place Oct. 30, 2015, at 3:30 p.m. in the Schulz Auditorium, 10 W. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60616.

Dr. Kraiger is the program coordinator for the Ph.D. in I/O Psychology program at CSU, and director of the online master's in Applied Industrial/Organizational Psychology. He is also a co-founder and chief strategy officer for jobZology. Dr. Kraiger is a Fellow and former president of the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP). He is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is a noted expert on learning, training, and training evaluation, having published or presented over 140 papers on training and related topics. He has edited or co-edited two books: Creating, implementing, and managing effective training and development systems in organizations: State-of-the-art lessons for practice, and Improving training effectiveness in work organizations.

Light refreshments will follow the lecture. Please RSVP with Jacqueline McGhee at jmcghee@iit.edu or 312.567.3557.