About
I completed my Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York in 2019. Following a one-year appointment as a Lecturer of Management in the School of Business and Economics at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, I accepted an offer in 2020 to join the Department of Psychological Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology. My primary areas of research are in the following domains:
- Adjustment and socialization of organizational newcomers
- Goal setting and motivation in work and achievement settings
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Publications
Permzadian, V., & Credé, M. (2016). Do first-year seminars improve college grades and retention? A quantitative review of their overall effectiveness and an examination of moderators of effectiveness. Review of Educational Research, 86(1), 277–316. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654315584955
Islam, S., Permzadian, V., Choudhury, R. J., Johnston, M, & Anderson, M. (2018). Proactive personality and the expanded criterion domain of performance: Predicting academic citizenship and counterproductive behaviors. Learning and Individual Differences, 65, 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2018.05.016
Luo, Y., Permzadian, V., Fan, J., & Meng, H. (2019). Employees’ social self-efficacy and work outcomes: Testing the mediating role of social status. Journal of Career Assessment, 27(4), 661–674. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072718795401
Permzadian, V., & Cho, K. W. (2023). Does the format of an assessment (closed book or open book) affect learning? A systematic review of the literature. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(4), 880–897. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2023.2289128
Cho, K. W., & Permzadian, V. (2024).The impact of open educational resources on student achievement: A meta-analysis. International Journal of Educational Research, 126, Article 102365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102365
Permzadian, V., & Zhao, T. (2024). The role of affective states in the process of goal setting. Current Psychology, 43, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06130-1
Permzadian, V., & Shen, T. (2024). Assessing the predictive validity of expectancy theory for academic performance. BMC Psychology, 12, Article 437.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01935-y
Permzadian, V., & Cho, K. W. (2025). Does test format affect learning? A meta-analysis comparing the effect of closed-book and open-book examinations. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 50(7),1098–1118. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2502590
Permzadian, V., & Mishra, V. (2026). Examining the effect of newcomers’ adaptability on
proximal and distal outcomes of organizational socialization. Acta Psychologica, 262, Article 105948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.105948Teaching
Undergraduate courses
- Principles of Management (2x)
- Organizational Behavior (5x)
- Human Resource Management (1x)
- Training and Development (1x)
- Industrial-Organizational Psychology (5x)
- Introductory Statistics (8x)
- Personality Psychology (1x)
- Introduction to Psychology (1x)
Graduate courses
- Organizational Behavior (1x)
- Training and Development (6x)
- Personnel Selection (6x)
- Industrial-Organizational Psychology (5x)
- People Analytics (1x)
Contact
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