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To avoid a conflict with Thanksgiving, we have NO Meeting in November.
Our combined November/December program is December 12 -- See Below
December 12th Meeting
WHO/WHAT:
Our presenter will be Joe Ward, now retired after working over thirty years in personnel and training research for the U.S. Air Force Personnel & Training Research Center at Lackland AFB and the U.S. Air Force Human Resources Laboratory at Brooks AFB. He will review several Air Force Personnel and Training Research Projects such as the AF Occupational Analysis Program, AF Recruiting Service Procurement Management Information System (PROMIS), and future prospects for development of a Computer Assisted Personnel Action System (COMPAS) for optimizing personnel assignments and training actions in large personnel systems.
See Joe's Resume Below for more about his background.
WHEN: Thursday, December 12
6:30 - 7:00 PM -- Networking and Socializing
7:00 - 8:00 PM -- Dinner and Announcements
8:00 - 9:00 PM -- Program
WHERE: Great Wall Restaurant, 1/2 block north of Loop 410 in the shopping strip on the west side of Blanco.
HOW MUCH: Dinner, tax, gratuity and this fine program is only $11.50 for Chapter Members, and $13.50 for non-members.
PLEASE RSVP TO: Hilton Goldman at 344-9818 or email <mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > or Judy Landry at 945-4828 <mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Contact Information:
The NSPI/ISPI Founding Chapter,
San Antonio, Texas
International Society for Performance Improvement
Web Sites:
San Antonio Chapter Web Site: http://www.codap.com/ispi
National Web Site Site: http://www.ispi.org
Mailing Address:
The International Society for Performance Improvement,
San Antonio ChapterC/O Randy Agee
5810 Spring Valley
San Antonio, Texas 782472002 Chapter Officers
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Past President Jerry Haynes
Sec/Treasurer Will Dozier
Sec/Treasurer Bettye Humphries
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Resume for Dr. Joe H. Ward Jr.
(As you may recall, the Northside Independent School District (NISD) is naming a new elementary school in Joe's honor this spring 2003. For more on this, click here.)
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Educational Psychology and Mathematics, University of Texas, 1953.
M.A., Educational Psychology and Mathematics, University of Texas, 1949.
B.A., Mathematics, University of Texas, 1947.
SPECIAL CAPABILITIES:
Dr. Ward has more than 30 years experience in the application of educational psychology, statistics, psychology, and a wide variety of other areas. Several major contributions to Air Force Personnel and Training technology include a Hierarchical Clustering procedure which is a major component of US Air Force's Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Programs (CODAP); a Decision Index which is used for sequential classification of personnel to jobs; and a Policy Development approach for combining multiple measures of outcomes into a single value.
RECENT ACTIVITIES:
Exciting work with middle and high school students introducing them to regression as a problem solving approach (see Ward & Fountain 1995 Journal of Statistics Education report on Linear Models).
EXPERIENCE:
Consultant to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Office of Personnel Management to help transition Air Force personnel system techniques to other agencies. He performs editorial work for technical journals such as the Journal of Experimental Education, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Association for Educational Data systems, Journal of Educational Statistics, and Multiple Linear Regression Viewpoints, San Antonio, Texas, 1984-present.
Personnel Research Psychologist for USAF (AFHRL) who planned, developed, and applied new statistical analysis and computing techniques to Air Force problems in selection, classification, training, and assignments. A major project involved development of a computer-based Person-Job-Match system for the Air Force Recruiting Service to classify enlistees into appropriate Air Force jobs, San Antonio, Texas, 1971-1984.
Director of the Educational Technology Project for the Southwest Educational Development Lab. Activities included a project with the University of Texas Computer Assisted Instruction Laboratory to develop computer-based instructional systems, the development of computerized class scheduling programs to be used by regional computer centers in Texas to schedule high school student to classes, and the study of the application of technology transition techniques to the design and development of educational systems, Austin, Texas, 1966-1971.
Personnel Research Psychologist for USAF (AFP&TRC) responsible for developing statistical analysis procedures and computational techniques using IBM machines for the solution of problems concerned with manpower, personnel, training, occupational and educational research, San Antonio, Texas, 1951-1966.
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