Tilman Sheets

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Education

• Ph.D. in Psychology
  University of Southern Mississippi
• M.S. in Counseling Psychology
  University of Southern Mississippi
• B.S. in Psychology
  Louisiana State University-Shreveport

Professional Experience

Louisiana Tech University: Department of Psychology & Behavioral Sciences

• Professor (2018 – Present)
• Associate Professor (2007 – 2018)
• Assistant Professor (2003 – 2007)
  • Program coordinator for I-O Ph.D. program (2009-2018)
  • Program Coordinator for the M.A. in I-O program (2006-2009)
  • Teach Statistics, Personnel Psychology, and General Psychology courses
  • Teach Honors section of Introduction to Psychology
  • Supervise graduate-level internship and practicum
  • Advise graduate and undergraduate students
• Department Head (2007 – 2012)
  • Managed day-to-day operation of the department
  • Supervised the hiring process for faculty positions
  • Supervised 15 teaching assistants

Minnesota State University: Department of Psychology

• Assistant Professor (2001 – 2003)
  • Taught Introduction to Psychology, History of Psychology, Psychometrics, Job Analysis, and Performance Appraisal and Personnel Selection courses
  • Advised undergraduate students
  • Participated on departmental and college committees
  • Supervised thesis committees and participated as committee member
  • Served as Internship Coordinator for the I-O graduate program

Awards

• 2006 – Present: College of Education Endowed Professorship awarded by the College of Education at Louisiana Tech University
• 2015: Presidential Medallion for service
• 2006: Psi Chi Teacher of the Year – presented by the Louisiana Tech chapter of Psi Chi
• 2003: Highlights of Teaching Award - awarded by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Minnesota State University

Accomplishments

• Established the Applied Research for Organizational Solutions (AROS), a university-associated consulting organization made up of faculty and graduate students in the I-O doctoral program. www.arosconsulting.org
• Worked with university and state officials in the successful creation of the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Ph.D. program at Louisiana Tech University.

Service

Departmental

• 2024 – Present: Coordinator of the M.A. online I-O program
• 2020 – Present: Coordinator of AROS consulting group at Louisiana Tech University
• 2009 – 2018: Coordinator of the Ph.D. I-O program
• 2013 – 2015: Coordinator for the Organizational Leadership online degree program
• 2007 – 2012: Department Head
• 2006 – 2009: Coordinator for I-O M.A. program
• 2007 – 2012: Trainer for Graduate Student Teaching

College

• 2012: Dean Search Committee
• 2006 – 2012: Administrative Council
• 2006 – 2011: Technology Committee
• 2006 – 2012: Strategic Planning Committee

State

• 2012 – 2013: Member of the University of Louisiana System’s leadership team for the establishment of an online degree program in Organizational Leadership.

National Professional

• 2020-2022: Membership Committee - Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• 2019-2020: Visibility Committee - Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• 2014 – 2016: Chair of the Electronic Communications Committee - Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• 2012 – 2016: Small Grant Awards Committee - Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• 2012 – 2014: Electronic Communications Committee - Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology
• 2002 – 2009; 2012 - present: Conference Reviewer - Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Dissertation Committees

Chaired

• McDonald, Derrick (2021). Exploring the Effect of Practice on Adverse Impact using a Measure of Cognitive Ability.
• Patel, Vinay (2021). Exploring the Effect of Occlusion on a Computerized Mental-Rotation Test: Implications for Automatic Item Generation.
• Reinecke, Olivia (2021). The impact of perspective on Situational Judgement scores.
• Hines, Scott (2017). The Development and Validation of an Automatic Item Generation Measure of Cognitive Ability.
• Chambers, Richard (2016). Evaluating the Different Distributions and Types of Analysis of Job Performance Measures.
• Smoak, Victoria (2015). Cultural Context’s Influence on the Relationships Between Leadership Personality and Subordinate Perceptions.
• Castille, Christopher (2015). Bright or Dark, or Virtues and Vices? A Reexamination of the Big Five and Job Performance.
• Napper, Cole (2013). Exploring the Structural Relationships Between Personality and 360-Degree Feedback.
• Simmering, Luke (2012). Deception Detection: Using Eye-Tracking Technology to Measure Faking in a Simulated Applicant Setting.

Committee Member

• Knott, Michael (2019). More than a feeling: The role of self-compassion on the affective response to negative events in the workplace.
• Plaisance, Brittani (2018). The Influence of Regional Stereotypes in Employee Selection.
• De León, James (2018). The Moderating Role of Culture in the Job Demands-Resources Model.
• Stevenson, Amy (2016). Using Latent Class Cluster Analysis to Identify and Profile Organizational Subclimates: An Exploratory Investigation Using Safety Climate as an Exemplar.
• Belwalkar, Bharati (2016). Reinventing Proactive Personality: A New Construct and Measurement.
• Murphy, Stephanie (2015). Individual Adaptability as a Predictor of Job Performance.
• Patton, Christopher (2014). Crystallized Intelligence and Openness to Experience: Drawing on Intellectual-Investment Theories to Predict Job Performance Longitudinally.

Presentations

• Kohn, H. L., & Sheets, T. L. (2024). Exploring cognitive task performance and motivational dynamics in web-based proctor conditions. Poster accepted at the International Personnel Assessment Council Annual Conference.
• Hines, S., Carter, N., Crede, M., Naber, A., and Sheets, T. (2024). Change My Mind: A Dynamic Debate on Dominant Paradigms in I-O Psychology. A panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
• Sheets, T., Meyer, J., Handler, C.A., Fetzer, M.S., Theys, E.R. (2021). The Future of Recruitment and Selection: The Pandemic and Beyond. A panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Online Conference.
• Yibass, S., Belwalkar, B.B., Meade, A.W., Markell-Goldstein, H., Green, J.P., Hines, S., and Sheets, T. (2021). Tipping the Scales: Leveraging I-O Training to Learn and Apply Data Science. A panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Online Conference.
• Sheets, T., Omori, C., Landers, R., Andrews, L. (2019, April). Predicting Prediction: A Discussion of Technology in Assessment and Selection. A panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, National Harbor, MD.
• Sheets, T., Allen, D., Doumit, D., and Girardot (2018). An Adaptive Angoff Method for Computer Adaptive Tests. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Alexandria, VA.
• Patel, P., McDonald, D., Omori, C., and Sheets, T. (2018). How Intuitive Are Your Survey Items?: A Qualitative Study. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Alexandria, VA.
• McDonald, D. and Sheets, T. (2017). Practice using an automatic-item-generation test as a method for decreasing the racial divide in scores on a cognitive ability test. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Birmingham, AL.
• Patel, S. and Sheets, T. (2017). Determining the effects of item-level feedback on automatic-item-generated tests. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Birmingham, AL.
• Sheets, T. (Chair), Horn, Z., Simmering, L., Martin, M., & Hakel, M. (2016, April). Technology training in I-O psychology. Alternative session presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Anaheim, CA.
• Rutigliano, P., Scherbaum, C., Poteet, M., and Sheets, T. (2015, May). Executive Board Session: A Data-Driven Approach to Improving SIOP: Practicing What We Preach. Panel Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia.
• Poeppelman, T., Cushenbery, L., Salter, N., Blacksmith, N., Sheets, T., Woodward, M. (2015). Strength in Numbers: Building Personal Brands as I-O Psychologists. Symposium at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia.
• Sheets, T., Chambers, R., Belwalkar, B., Marks, J., and Reinecke, O. (2015). Alternative Solutions to Measurement Challenges of Culture and Climate. Panel Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Philadelphia.
• Napper, C., Sheets, T., Desselles, M., and Jenkins, C. (2014, May). Using Structural Equation Modeling to Solve 360-Degree Feedback’s Criterion Problem. Poster Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu.
• Chambers, R., Buckner, J., and Sheets, T. (2014, May). Drivers of technology related loafing: Applying a model of CWB. Poster Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu.
• Castille, C., Cooke, R., Brawley, A., Ashkanasy, N., and Sheets, T. (2014, May). The International Culture & Climate Item Pool: Concerns and Solutions. Panel Presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Honolulu.
• Napper, C. N., & Sheets, T. L. (2013, May). Tell Me the Truth: The Response Validity of College Student Populations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, Boston, MA.
• Napper, C. N., Smoak, V. J., Frost, A., Sheets, T. L., & Rabalais, A. M. (2012, April). Fraternizing and “Friend Requests”: Networking’s Relationship to Perceived Career Success. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego.
• Simmering, L., Sachau, D., Sheets, T., Moffet, R., Griffith, R., & Thomas, A. (2012, April). Outside the Ivory Tower- using Real-world experience in Graduate Training. Panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, San Diego.
• Castille, C., Plaisance, B., McKnight, S., Lyons, J., & Sheets, T. (2012, July). So you think you can fly? A differential investigation in the domain of visual perception. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Las Vegas.
• Igou, F. & Sheets, T. (2011, July). Traditional Certification Rules and Banding: An Empirical Comparison. Presentation at the annual conference of the International Personnel Assessment Council, Washington, D.C.
• Buckner, J. E., & Sheets, T. (2011, May). Emotional Labor and Self-Monitoring During Task Performance. Poster presented at the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.
• Buckner, J. E., & Sheets, T. (2010, November). A Call for the Consideration of Individual Differences in Cyber Security. Presented at the Center for Secure Cyberspace 3rd annual Cyberspace Research Workshop, Shreveport, LA.

Publications

• Sheets, T., Belwalkar, B., Toaddy, S., and McClure, T. (2019). Filling the I-O/Technology void: Technology and graduate training in I-O Psychology. In R. Landers (ed.), Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior (pp. 22-37). Cambridge University Press.
• Buckner V, J. E., Castile, C., and Sheets, T.L. (2012). The Five Factor Model of personality and employees’ excessive use of technology. Computers in Human Behavior, Vol 28(5).
• Simmering, L., Napper, C.N., and Sheets, T.L. (2012, April). Experience Based Training for I-O Graduate Students. The Industrial Psychologist, Vol 49(4).
• Rutland, B., Sheets, T. and Young, T. (2007). The Development of a Scale to Measure Problem Use of Short Message Service: The SMS Problem Use Diagnostic Questionnaire. CyberPsychology & Behavior, Vol 10(6).

Grants and Contracts

PI/Co PI on Funded Projects

• 2023: JumpMath: Research to determine the effectiveness of an online tutorial system (PI).
• 2017: Sasol Chemicals USA: Contract to establish cut-off scores and model/improve hiring process for technicians at. Sheets, Tilman (Co-PI) and Igou, Frank (Co-PI).
• 2017: CSRA: Contract to build assessment system for Program Managers at. (Sheets & Desselles, Co-PIs).
• 2016: Development of a 360-Degree Feedback Instrument for Mentors in Teaching Clinical Residency Programs. Sponsored by a Grant (Vessel & McCoy, Co-PIs).
• 2015-2017: Contract for Personnel Research. Sponsored by CSRC (Sheets & Desselles, Co-PIs).
• 2014: Two-Day Process Development Workshop. Sponsored by The Office of Natural Resources Revenue’s Work Force Development Office (PI).
• 2012: Project evaluation services to Louisiana Models for Change. Sponsored by John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through the Institute for Public Health and Justice at LSUHSC-NO and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (Desselles & Sheets, Co-PIs).
• 2012: Job Analysis and Validation Study for Employee Assessment Instruments. Sponsored by Community Trust Bank (Napper & Sheets, Co-PIs).
• 2011: Confirmatory job analysis and competency models. Sponsored by Assess Systems (PI).
• 2009: Technology Rollout: Qualitative Research Project. SGS (Desselles, PI; Sheets, Co-PI).
• 2007: Louisiana Tech (technology fund): Computer Lab for Social Sciences. Sponsored by Louisiana Tech University. Livingston & Sheets (Co-PIs).
• 2007: NSF: Lie Detection: a Novel Psychological Approach. (Co-PI, PI: Jeffery Walcyzk).

PI/Co PI on Unfunded Projects

• 2012-2020: Annual Student Orientation Survey and Report. Sponsored by Office of Student Admissions.
• 2013-2019: Annual Peach Festival Customer Survey and Report. Sponsored by Ruston Chamber of Commerce.
• 2017: Content Validation of Student-Teacher Assessment. Sponsored by the department of Curriculum Instruction and Leadership (CIL) at Louisiana Tech.
• 2016: Feasibility Report on the Addition of an Administrative Position. Sponsored by President’s Office.
• 2016: Training and Development: A Proposal for Change. Sponsored by Office of Natural Resources Revenue’s Work Force Development Office.
• 2015: Three-day Workshop for La Tech and Computer Sciences Corporation.
• 2012-2013: Customer Satisfaction Survey for Lambright Center. Sponsored by Rec Center.

History

I came to Louisiana Tech in 2003 to teach in their M.A. I-O program after spending a wonderful couple of years with friends and colleagues in Mankato, Minnesota. Within a few years of starting the job, I was given the task of completing the department’s state application to establish a Ph.D. program in I-O psychology. One of my vivid memories is of my friend, Dan, telling me to avoid teaching in a doctoral program at all costs. Ignorance protected me from much of the anxiety I should have felt at the time.

During the journey to establishing the I-O Ph.D. program, I decided to accept the challenge of running the department. My primary reason for doing so was seeing the amount of red tape that I could cut to get our program up and running (I signed my name twice on a large number of documents). Everything worked out, and we got approval to start the program. Then, Mother Nature knocked and said, “Fuck you, here’s cancer.” It was a very life-changing event and one that almost got me. I was as surprised as anyone when I pulled through (I went to the SIOP conference that year and looked like death warmed over).

Afterward, I became determined to ease off as much as I could. I found a faculty member to replace me as department head who was willing and well suited for the job. I also got really lucky and hired a couple of great colleagues during that time who worked hard to help get the program up and running. Looking back on all we did and the number of talented folks we’ve had the honor of matriculating, I’m proud of what we were able to accomplish. This success was also in no small part due to the talented students who put in the time and effort to help the program and still do so. From me to you, thanks y’all!