Patrick Wadlington

Current

Senior Psychometrician at Birkman International

Past

Senior Psychometrician at Hogan Assessment Systems
Researcher at United States Department of Defense
Researcher at Office of Naval Research, Naval Training Facilities

Researcher at Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratories

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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Southeastern Louisiana University
Mississippi State University

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Patrick Wadlington’s Summary

Senior-level psychometrician. Have developed and maintained high stakes, large scale organizational assessments for multiple organizations.

Industrial/organizational psychological researcher. Have researched and implemented applications for various organizational psychological topics such as leadership, personality, selection, job satisfaction.

Industrial/organizational psychological consultant. Have consulted and handled I/O issues of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Education psychological researcher. Have researched and developed instrument to measure learning disability (e.g., dyslexia, discalculia) within children and adults. Have researched teaching styles within teachers.

Patrick Wadlington’s Specialties:

Psychometrics, Large-scale & high stakes organizational test development, Structural equation modeling, Item Response Theory(IRT), Personality research, Individual difference research, Selection profiling

Patrick Wadlington’s Experience

Senior Psychometrician

Birkman International

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

October 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for designing and conducting psychometric studies for the development, implementation, and maintenance of a large scale, high stakes social perceptions and personality inventory used in personnel selection and development in the US and internationally. Responsible for designing competency based applications of personnel assessments. Also responsible for conducting, presenting and publishing psychological research for applied and academic audiences, and for resolving clients’ psychometric and application issues. Member of leadership team in determining future product development and report design.
Senior Psychometrician

Hogan Assessment Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

December 2004 — September 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Responsible for designing and conducting psychometric studies to support the development, implementation, and maintenance of several large scale, high stakes ability and personality inventories used in personnel selection and development in the US and internationally. Also responsible for conducting, presenting and publishing psychological research for applied and academic audiences, and for resolving clients’ psychometric issues.
Researcher

United States Department of Defense

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

June 2001 — May 2004 (3 years)

Responsible for evaluating and conducting research, and making data-driven recommendations for changes to policies and procedures to the Department of Defense in regards to issues dealing with equal opportunity and sexual harassment/discrimination.
Researcher

Office of Naval Research, Naval Training Facilities

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Military industry)

August 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Member of multi-disciplinary team that developed, implemented, and validated a computerized training system used to train soldiers for crisis situations.
Researcher

Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Laboratories

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Military industry)

August 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Member of multi-disciplinary team that developed, implemented, and validated a computerized decision making system used to reduce the manpower and cognitive resources necessary to effectively handle submarines.

Patrick Wadlington’s Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2002 — 2004

Advanced training in psychometric and statistical analyses
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.S., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 1999 — 2001

Advanced training in psychometric and statistical analyses
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

B.S., Psychology, 1995 — 1998
Southeastern Louisiana University

Economics, Finance, Computer Science 1994 — 1995
Mississippi State University

Mechanical Engineering 1993 — 1994

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Patrick Wadlington’s Interests:

psychometric application to organizational issues, assessment creation, journal editing/reviewing, publishing, soccer, LSU football, national & global economics

Patrick Wadlington’s Groups:

Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (SIOP), Houston Area Industrial and Organizational Psychologists (HAIOP) [board member], Academy of Management, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association of Psychological Science (APS), International Dyslexia Association (IDA), National Counsel on Measurement in Education (NCME), Southeastern Psychological Association