Foundations of Psychological Testing: A Practical Approach

About Leslie A. MillerRobert L. Lovler

Leslie A. Miller PhD SHRM-CP PHR has broad experience in consulting teaching and researching in the area of organizational and educational assessment measurement and development. Currently the owner of her own consulting business LanneM TM LLC she provides her clients with pragmatic and affordable talent management solutions to help them acquire develop and retain the talent they need to achieve desired business results. Her expertise includes designing performance improvement and management tools and knowledge tests customizing and facilitating leadership training programs providing assessment-based executive coaching and designing and implementing business impact evaluation and return-on-value studies. She also spends her time as an adjunct faculty member teaching organizational behavior and psychology research and human resources courses at Rollins College the University of Oklahoma and for the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Phoenix. In addition she chairs doctoral dissertations. Previously the vice president of leadership development and human resources at the Central Florida YMCA she was responsible for contributing to the strategic plans of the organization by leading the associations talent management initiativesrecruiting developing and retaining the associations talent. Prior to joining the YMCA she was employed by Wilson Learning Corporation (WLC) a performance improvement company where she served as the director of business solutions a senior project manager and a business solutions consultant. In these roles she was responsible for conceptualizing designing managing and implementing traditional and technology-based assessment measurement and training performance improvement solutions for client organizations.     Prior to joining WLC Dr. Miller served as the assistant dean of admissions at Rollins College where she was also a faculty member of the psychology organizational behavior and human resources programs. Before joining Rollins College she was a senior research psychologist for the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington D.C. At the bureau she designed researched and analyzed the results of some of our nations most important surveys. In her current and previous roles she has worked with various leading organizations in the high-tech financial pharmaceutical and transportation industries. The holder of a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Maryland she has an extensive list of publications and presentations. She is a member of the APA the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Society for Human Resource Management.   Robert L. Lovler PhD has over 30 years of experience working as both an internal and an external consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the areas of employee assessment and selection organizational development strategic human resource consulting and training design and delivery. His career began at CBS Inc. where he served in several roles including director of training for the retail consumer electronics unit then moving up to vice president of two different units within the CBS Publishing Group. He is currently senior vice president of global human resources at Wilson Learning Corporation an international consulting firm that focuses on human performance improvement. During his career he has had the opportunity to design and implement a wide range of organizational interventions both domestically and internationally working in Japan China South Korea Hong Kong England and Italy. In the United States he supervised the development and implementation of the assessment center used to select candidates for entry into the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) Senior Executive Service Development Program presenting the results in Washington D.C. to Christine Todd Whitman the EPA administrator. He also developed the system used to help select commercial airline pilots for a major U.S. airline and worked with former senator Warren Rudman to develop and implement a nationwide survey of sales practices in the rent-to-own industry. He has served as a testing consultant to the California Bar Association and the state of Pennsylvania and he oversaw the development of the licensure examinations for medical physicists in the state of Texas. He has been on the faculty of the State University of New York at Farmingdale and the adjunct faculty of Hofstra University and the University of Central Florida. Dr. Lovler received his BA degree in psychology from the University of California Los Angeles and holds masters and doctoral degrees from Hofstra University. He is a member of the APA and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.