Julius A. Najab
Research Interests
As a social scientist my interests center on program evaluation. My main focus of program evaluation creates many options to conduct research in a broad range of content areas. In order to study a variety of content areas I also invest much of my time in psychometrics, research methodology and statistics. I am also interested in an interdisciplinary approach toward psychology research. I am also interested in intergrating evolutionary psychology and genetics into the my interdisciplinary studies.
Current Projects
The Tape Measure Study The project is an empirical test of Critical Multiplism. Critical Multiplism is a theory described by Will Shadish, Thomas Cook and Houts, regarding the advantages of mutliple theories, measurement, methodology, and statistical procedures in empirical research.
Education Resource Study This is a collobration with an Education Psychologist collague. We are interested in determining how many financial resources account for student performance on standardized tests.
Missing Data Study Patrick McKnight, my adivsor, along with Kathy McKnight, Souraya Sidani, and Aurelio Jose Figueredo wrote a text on missing data handling procedures. The missing data study, I am invloved with is supplementary to their work. The study is an assessment of missing data reporting in empirical research studies.