People

Graduate Lab Members and Master's Project Advisees

Jason Underwood (psychometrics/measure development/response time modeling, job analysis)

Ethan Serrano (psychometrics/measure development/applicant reactions to tests)

Kennedy Greenwood (psychometrics/item response theory)

Hang Hoang (psychometrics/item property drift)

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Past Lab Members and Advisees

These individuals served as active collaborators, research assistants, or project advisees with Dr. Hurtz while attending Sac State.

Listed (at least roughly) in reverse chronological order

Milena Kren (psychometrics/measure development)

David Crawford (work ethic measurement, job analysis)

Cerenitye Gomez (contextualized personality measurement)

Sabeer Amin (goal orientation measurement)

Melissa Storz (test development/exam length optimization)

Brian Knox (21 standard setting on professional examinations)

Regi Mucino (test security/data forensics; work process optimization)

Oscar Rios (psychometrics; circumplex personality research; contextualized personality tests)

Yohana Medina (work ethic measurement; evaluation of employee selection systems)

Kevin Huang (20 Performance evaluation)

Charles Bonfert (work ethic measurement)

Jorge Avalos (17, Rasch modeling for test development)

Tim Bodea (17 driver safety information system)

Matt Steinwert (17 perfectionism outcomes)

Vanessa Alejos (circumplex personality research; contextualized personality tests)

John Holt (work ethic measurement)

Marcus Vadnais (inductive reasoning measures; work ethic measurement)

Sam Brinkley (personality and driving behavior; situational judgment in driving)

Megan Morgan (situational judgment in driving)

Brian Petrie (15 supervisor/employee communication)

Clinton Kelly (13 situational judgment testing)

Charles Strike (13 IRT in standard setting)

Dan Heap (12 Job embeddedness)

Ruxandra Turcu (11 response distortion on personality tests)

Karen Phillips (11 IRT parameter estimation)

Catherine Wessen (10 Standard setting)

Aboubakary Ouattara (10 Employee turnover)

Stephanie Jones (10 Person-organization fit)

Sharisse Dy (10 task-KSAO linkages in job analysis)

Justin Carroll (inductive reasoning measures; IRT parameter estimation; Monte Carlo methods; driver training evaluation)

Daniella Echeveste (inductive reasoning measures; Rasch measurement; driver training evaluation)

Heather Huhtala (inductive reasoning measures)

Jason Schaefer (09) (effects of item formats on item difficutly and discrimation)

Bryan Byington (09 IRT in job analysis; inductive reasoning measures)

Jason Rowell (08 IRT for test development)

Sarah DePaoli (08 IRT for test development)

Megan Pierce (08 contextualized personality tests)

Victor Muh (08 circumplex personality research)

Wil Godsave (08 personality and work ethic)

Dorothy Boyd (08 Training Evaluation)

Chau Nguyen (job analysis rating scales)

Devika Tandan (07 standard setting)

Joshua Whitten (07 contextualized personality tests)

Teng Yang (07) (item response theory in test development)

Sukhvir Brar (07) (test development/validation)

Derek Pasisz (06 inter-rater agreement; standard setting)

Eva Mireku (05 employee development)

Stephanie Tipton (05 analysis of repeat test takers)

Ana Costa (04 Applicant reactions to selection procedures)

Christian Jones (03 IRT in standard setting)

Note: If memory has failed me and you belong on this list please let me know! (ghurtz@csus.edu)

Joining

Our lab requires personal initiative, active involvement, and a genuine interest in all phases of research (planning, preparing, executing, analyzing, writing, presenting). We usually have a small number of heavily-involved lab members. We select assistants who will move things forward without being pushed; who won't just wait for further instruction but will ask questions and make suggestions and offer potential strategies and solutions. 

The primary focus is for students to learn new knowledge and skills and gain research experience, in order to supplement their classroom education. But we also want to produce significant output in terms of disseminating our research findings (conference presentations, publications). This will happen if the student lab members are actively involved and share the goal of being a productive lab.

We have semi-regular (weekly/bi-weekly) all-lab meetings either in-person on campus or through web conferencing (Zoom), and communicate regularly through a group e-mail address. Subgroups working on specific projects also communicate regularly among themselves. We have a central lab office for in-person meetings.

If this sounds like a lab experience you want, and that you can make a substantial contribution to, please download and complete the Research Assistant Application/Survey and submit it to Dr. Hurtz at ghurtz@csus.edu. While we may not have immediate openings or needs, we will note your interests and skills in case of future needs for new lab members.