and Medicine Engineering National Academies of Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Human-Systems Integration, Committee on Workforce Planning Models for Forensic Science: A Workshop, Julie Anne Schuck (EDT) Personnel Selection in the Pattern Evidence Domain of Forensic Science

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In July 2016 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop with the goal of bringing together industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists, experts on personnel selection and testing, forensic scientists, and other researchers whose work has a nexus with workforce needs in the forensic science field with a focus on pattern evidence. Participants reviewed the current status of selection and training of forensic scientists who specialize in pattern evidence and discussed how tools used in I-O psychology to understand elements of a task and measure aptitude and performance could address challenges in the pattern evidence domain of the forensic sciences. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.