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WELCOME TO THE PEARL LAB
We study Personnel Evaluations
and Assessments for Retention and Learning.
PEARL Lab
News & Announcements
The PEARL Lab will be admitting a PhD Student in the Fall of 2026
Dr. Ricardo Brooks is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology program at Penn State University.
He will be admitting a student to begin in the Fall of 2026. You can also contact us via email: pearl.lab.psu@gmail.com.
Featured Research
The Validity of Single-Response Situational Judgment Tests: A Nomological Network Meta-Analysis
Nearly 15 years after the first empirical validation of the then-novel single-response situational judgment test (SJT) methodology, research using single-response SJTs has proliferated. Single-response SJTs simply feature one edited critical incident that is evaluated by respondents–hence, the term “single-response” SJT. Single-response SJT items bypass the need for experts to generate and evaluate response options, simplifying and reducing the cost of test construction. We report the first meta-analysis of the criterion-related validity of single-response SJTs and explore the nomological network surrounding the procedural knowledge measured by this format.
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