Frank L. Schmidt, Ph.D., is the Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Management and Organizations in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He has been a faculty member since 1985.

Schmidt joined The Gallup Organization as a Senior Scientist in 1993. In his role as a Gallup Senior Scientist, he teaches Gallup associates about meta-analysis, measurement, personnel selection research methods, and substantive individual differences in research findings. He also consults with Gallup associates about Gallup's Q ¹² employee engagement research and associate selection studies and helps answer client questions regarding Gallup's research findings.

As a Senior Scientist, Schmidt has also contributed research and methodology relating to the study of Gallup's Q ¹² employee engagement survey, the Clifton StrengthsFinder, and various selection interviews. He has published several articles in research journals that present discoveries on Gallup's selection interviews and Q ¹² survey.

Schmidt has published more than 150 research articles and book chapters on personnel selection, selection utility, meta-analyses of validity of selection methods, research methods, and meta-analysis methods. He has coauthored six books, including the second edition (2004) of Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings, which he coauthored with John Hunter.

Schmidt is past president of the Division of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation (Division 5) of the American Psychological Association, past chair of the Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing, and a former member of the Liaison Advisory Group to the Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. He received a Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from both the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, a Lifetime Research Methods Contribution Award from the American Academy of Management, and the Heneman Distinguished Career Award for Research Contributions to Human Resources from the Academy of Management, Human Resources Division.

Schmidt earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Bellarmine University, and his master's and doctorate degrees in industrial and organizational psychology from Purdue University. He is currently on the editorial board of the Quantitative Series in the Social Sciences, the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and Psychological Methods.

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