Garett N Howardson

1320 north Veitch St, Arlington, VA 22201

Research

U.S. Army Research Institute - Foundational Sciences Research Unit (FSRU) - Fort Belvoire, VA since Jun 2012
Consortium Research Fellow
George Washington University since Oct 2010
Research Coordinator for Computer Self Efficacy Meta Analysis
Work and Virtual Environments (WAVE) Lab, Dr. Tara Behrend since Aug 2009
Research Assistant
Army Research Institute - Personnel Assessment Research Unit (PARU) - Arlington, VA Oct 2011 - Jun 2012
Consortium Research Fellow
George Washington University Jan 2012 - May 2012
Instructor for Psychology 2144: Industrial/Organizational Psychology

The George Washington University 2009 - 2014
Ph.D. Expected 2014, Industrial/Organizational Psychology The George Washington University 2009 - 2011
Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Industrial and Organizational Psychology The University of South Dakota 2004 - 2008
B.S., Psychology

Data Analysis
Psychology
Research
Statistics
Spss
Research Design
Microsoft Office
Public Speaking
Computational Social Science
Statistical Programming
R
Sas
Organizational Behavior
Survey Research
Scientific Computing
Structural Equation Modeling
Writing
Data Structures
Data Science
Mplus
Statistical Computing
Job Analysis
Validation
Leadership
Data Analytics
Leadership Development
Qualitative Research
Computational Modeling
Html
Css
Javascript
Jquery Ui
D3.Js
Cytoscape.js
Prototype.js
Jquery
Python
Php
Technical Writing
Visual Basic
Usability Testing
Usability Design
Human Computer Interaction

Winner of James C. Johnson student paper competition
International Personnel Assessment Council (IPAC)
Garett was awarded the best student paper for my work on training reactions entitled, "Coming full circle with reactions: Toward an understanding of affective training reactions through the core affect circumplex." In this paper, it is argued that affective training reactions are multidimensional, characterized by a superordinate, two-dimensional space of affective activation and valence, and that affective reactions differentially relate to learning outcomes (i.e., cognitive and attitudinal/motivational) depending on their circumplex location.
Mosel Award for Research Creativity
The George Washington University I/O Psychology Program
Garett received the Mosel research creativity award for my SIOP poster titled "Training reactions: An affective theory approach for clarification and measurement" (co-authored with Allison Brown and Tara Behrend). The paper expanded the criterion space of affective training reactions and showed that various affective reactions relate differently to learning criteria (i.e., cognitive, affective).
Student Essay Award for the Field of Selection/Personnel Assessment
Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitain Washington (PTCMW)
The contest invited students to submit essays that offer novel insights or opinions for improving the science and practice of I/O psychology. Garett's essay, entitled, "Assessing Self-Regulatory Constructs in Personnel Selection: A Possible Solution to the Proximity/Generalizability Tradeoff," addresses the tension between measuring proximal job performance predictors (e.g., job knowledge tests) and the limited generalizability of such measures across multiple jobs. The paper argues that assessments of self-regulatory processes (e.g., goal-choice, goal-striving) are more proximal to job performance while also being generalizable across many different jobs.