People

Graduate Lab Members

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Past Lab Members

These individuals either served as active research assistants while attending Sac State, or devoted their master's theses to a portion of Dr. Hurtz' ongoing research.

Listed (at least roughly) in reverse chronological order

Melissa Storz: Test Development/Exam Length Optimization

Regi Mucino: Test Security/Data Forensics

Oscar Rios: Circumplex Personality Research; Contextualized Personality Tests

Yohana Medina: Work Ethic Measurement

Jason Underwood: Optimizing Job Analysis Rating Scales

Charles Bonfert: Work Ethic Measurement

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

Charles Strike: IRT in Standard Setting

Ruxandra Turcu: Response Distortion on Personality Tests

Karen Phillips: IRT Parameter Estimation

Sharisse Dy: 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

Bryan Byington: IRT in Job Analysis; Inductive Reasoning Measures

Megan Pierce: Contextualized Personality Tests

Victor Muh: Circumplex Personality Research

Wil Godsave: Personality and Work Ethic

Chau Nguyen: Job Analysis Rating Scales

Devika Tandan: Standard Setting

Joshua Whitten: Contextualized Personality Tests

Derek Pasisz: Inter-Rater Agreement; Standard Setting

Eva Mireku: Employee Development

Christian Jones: 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 in Amador Hall, Room 203, that can be used for small meetings, data scanning/ cleaning/ analysis, and for storing research materials.

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.