MCHoward Consulting, LLC, strongly believes in the scientist-practitioner model.  That is, we remain firmly grounded in science and academics when we perform our professional work – and vice versa.  For this reason, we have many journal publications across each of our product domains.  Many of these peer-reviewed publications are included below:

Selection & Assessment

• Howard, M.C. (2017).  The empirical distinction of core self-evaluations and psychological capital and the identification of negative core self-evaluations and negative psychological capital.  Personality and Individual Differences.
• Howard, M. C. (2017). Measuring self-esteem instability through a single-
  administration scale: Still a fruitless endeavor?. Personality and Individual
  Differences, 104, 522-532.
• Howard, M. C., Farr, J. L., Grandey, A. A., & Gutworth, M. B. (2016).  The creation of the workplace social courage scale (WSCS): An investigation of
  internal consistency, psychometric properties, validity, and utility.  Journal of
  Business and Psychology.
• Howard, M. C. (2016).  The relationship between the number of raters and the validity of performance ratings.  Industrial/Organizational Psychology:
  Perspectives on Science and Practice, 9(2), 361-367.
• Howard, M. C. & Alipour, K.A. (2014). Does the Courage Measure really
  measure courage? A theoretical and empirical evaluation. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(5), 449-459.
• Howard, M. C. (2013). Putting the cart before the horse: Subgroup differences in childhood and employment discrimination. Industrial/Organizational
  Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 6(4), 429-433.

Training

• Howard, M.C. (2017) Investigating the simulation elements of environment and control: Extending the Uncanny Valley Theory to simulations. Computers & Education.
• Howard, M. C. & Jacobs, R. R. (2016).  The multiphase optimization
  strategy (MOST) and the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART): Two novel evaluation methods for developing optimal training
  programs.  Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Analytics

• Howard, M.C. & Hoffman, M. (Conditional Acceptance).  Variable-Centered, Person-Centered, and Person-Specific Approaches: Where Theory Meets the Method.  Organizational Research Methods.
• Howard, M.C. (2017).  Let’s keep looking for other roads: Improving approaches to identifying and addressing key drivers.  Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.
• Howard, M.C. (2016).  A Review of Exploratory Factor Analysis Decisions and Overview of Current Practices:  What We Are Doing and How Can We
  Improve?  International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 32(1), 51-62.
• Howard, M.C. & Melloy, R. C. (2016). Evaluating item-sort task methods: The presentation of a new statistical significance formula and methodological best practices. The Journal of Business and Psychology, 31(1), 173-186.

Solutions

• Howard, M.C., Travers, S., Marshall, C., & Cogswell, J. (Accepted for
  Publication). I-O Psychology and Technology: Why Reinvent the Wheel?
  Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice
• Howard, M.C. (2017). A meta-analysis and systematic literature review of
  virtual reality rehabilitation programs. Computers in Human Behavior.
• Howard, M. C. & Jayne, B. S. (2015). An analysis of over 1,400 articles, 900 scales, and 17 years of research: The state of scales in CyberPsychology,
  Behavior, and Social Networking. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social
  Networking, 18(3), 181-187.
• Howard, M.C. (2014). Creation of a computer self-efficacy measure: Analysis of internal consistency, psychometric properties, and validity. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 17(10), 429-433.