Post by romanasimran2024 on Feb 11, 2024 6:31:21 GMT -5
The XIV Seminar of the UAM-IIC Chair of Psychometric Models and Applications once again reflected on a relevant topic for RR. HH., as it already did with teleworking in 2020 and with Artificial Intelligence in 2022. This time “Digital evaluation in organizations: gamification, networks and new data sources” was put on the table.
Paco AbadFor Francisco J. Abad, co-director of the Argentina Telemarketing Data Chair with Carmen García, technology has a lot to contribute to the updating of this discipline, “being aware that we must have the same demands for reliability and validity ” as with tests and models. traditional. And that is why this meeting exists, to show opportunities, but also evidence, and, above all, to “produce useful knowledge,” as Ignacio Montero, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at the UAM, pointed out.
On the other hand, Beatriz Lucía, director of the Talent Analytics area of the Institute of Knowledge Engineering (IIC), also highlighted the value of bringing together researchers and HR professionals. H H. and Psychometrics to “share new evaluation methodologies with which to obtain quality data in HR. H H. that support better decisions.” In addition, she invited attendees to share challenges, challenges and measurement problems with the Chair and with the IIC, to collaborate and find innovative solutions that allow us to know people better.
For Pedro J. Ramos, professor in the area of Social Psychology at the University of Zaragoza, we are in a favorable moment to investigate new forms of evaluation , such as gamification . In his talk “Here comes a new challenger!: evaluations through games in personnel selection”, he introduced the term “serious games”, games whose specific purpose is the evaluation of people and not fun. And he gave us some clues from his research on the matter.