Fritz Drasgow is a professor of psychology and director of theCenter for Human Resources Management at the University ofIllinois. He is also the current chair of Scientific Affairs at theSociety for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Neal Schmitt is University Distinguished Professor of Psychologyand Management and chair of the psychology department at MichiganState University. He is the editor of SIOP's OrganizationalFrontiers series.

"This is an excellent book that most of us will find useful."(Personnel Psychology, Spring 2003)

• Foreword (Neal Schmitt). Preface. The Contributors. Part One: Introduction. 1. Applied Problems and Methods of Analysis: A Road Map (NealSchmitt, Fritz Drasgow). Part Two: Description and Measurement of Variables. 2. The Grounded Theory Approach to Qualitative Research (KarenLocke). 3. Computer-Based Advances in Assessment (Julie B.Olson-Buchanan). 4. Item Response Theory for Dichotomous Assessment Data (StevenPaul Reise, Niels G. Waller). 5. Modeling Data with Polytomous Item Response Theory (Michael J.Zickar). 6. Differential Item and Test Functioning (Nambury S. Raju, BarbaraB. Ellis). 7. Generalizability Theory (Richard P. DeShon). 8. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (Charles E. Lance, Robert J.Vandenberg). Part Three: Examining the Interrelationships Among Variables andTesting Substantive Hypotheses. 9. Structural Equation Modeling: A User's Guide (Roger E.Millsap). 10. Latent Growth Modeling (David Chan). 11. Alternatives to Difference Scores: Polynomial RegressionAnalysis and Response Surface Methodology (Jeffrey R.Edwards). 12. Multilevel Random Coefficient Modeling in OrganizationalResearch: Examples Using SAS and S-PLUS (Paul D. Bliese). 13. Structure and Timing in Limited Range Dependent Variables:Regression Models for Predicting If and When (David A.Harrison). 14. Computational Modeling in Organizational Sciences: Contributions of a Third Research Discipline (CharlesHulin, Andrew G. Miner, Steven T. Seitz). 15. Meta-Analysis: A Review of Quantitative Cumulation Methods(Hannah R. Rothstein, Michael A. McDaniel, MichaelBorenstein). Name Index. Subject Index.