Professor Fritz Drasgow

219B Psychology Building MC 716
603 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 618201
(217) 333-2739
fdrasgow@s.psych.uiuc.edu
Fax: 217-244-5876

Fritz Drasgow is a professor of psychology and of labor and industrial relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received a Ph.D. degree in quantitative psychology from UIUC and subsequently served on the faculty at Yale University's School of Organization and Management. Drasgow’s research has focused on issues related to psychological measurement, including the identification of individuals mismeasured by standardized tests and the examination of possible test bias against specific subgroups. In recent years he has worked extensively on the development of interactive video assessments of critical work-related social skills. His research has been published in such journals as Applied Psychological Measurement, Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, and Psychometrika, and he serves on the editorial board of six journals. Drasgow is a former chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessments and a former chair of the U.S. Department of Defense's Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing. He currently serves as an adviser to the U.S. Department of Labor for the effort to computerize the General Aptitude Test Battery.

Current Research Interests:

• Development and application of measurement methods for problems in industrial/organizational psychology and in human resource management.
• Development of methods for identifying individuals who have been mismeasured by multiple-choice tests and the development, evaluation, and application of methods for determining whether a psychological test is biased against members of a particular group.
• Test validity.
• Social and political context of psychological testing and issues related to fairness and merit in hiring and promotion.