Overview
Participants in this seminar receive hands-on experience in administering, scoring, interpreting, and writing up the kinds of psychological assessments that are most frequently employed in the workplace. Emphasis is placed on tasks of cognitive ability (for example, IQ); personality tests (traits, and positive and negative affectivity); and interview techniques (structured/situational, semi-structured, and unstructured). Participants also receive practical training in employing nonverbal communication as an additional source of assessment data; constructing tests tailored to specific workplace environments (for example, performance appraisals) and issues (stress, burnout, organizational disidentification, and counterproductive workplace behavior); and evaluating newer developments in workplace testing (integrity tests, situational judgment tests, work sample tests, and computer adaptive testing).
Course Sequencing
Students must be in their final semester, are in good academic standing, and have completed all other degree requirements, except for the capstone. Students who do not meet these requirements are dropped from the course.
Due to the heavy demands of the capstone, it is considered a full-time course. All other degree requirements must be fulfilled so you can draw upon your entire ALM training to produce a final project worthy of a Harvard degree.
You need to complete 12 courses (48 credits) to earn the degree.
Sample Pathway
You need to complete 12 courses (48 credits) to earn the degree.
If you take one course a semester:
- you'll register for your 11th course
- then in the spring, you'll register for the capstone as your 12th and final course
If you take two courses a semester:
- you'll register for your 10th course and 11th course in the fall
- then in the spring, you'll register for the capstone as your 12th and one and only final course
Capstone Faculty
Jack Demick, PhD
Stay Tuned
Content for this new course will be added on an ongoing basis.