Executing Successful Performance Appraisals and Competency Assessments

Retrospective Postconviction Competency to Stand Trial Assessments.

In Commonwealth v. Chatman, 46 N.E.3d 1010 (Mass. 2016), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts affirmed the trial court’s denial of his motion for a new trial, which was based on his assertion that he was incompetent at his 2002 trial. The Chatman test was constructed in a 2013 appeal in this same case as a framework for retrospective evaluation of a defendant’s competency to stand trial,...

The incompetence of competency assessments in neurology.

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What Makes Performance Appraisals Effective?

Task appraisals, emotions, and performance goal orientation.

We predict real-time fluctuations in employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the immediate task situation and individual differences in performance goal orientation. Task confidence, task importance, positive emotions, and negative emotions were assessed 5 times per day for 3 weeks in an experience sampling study of 135 managers. At the within-person level, appra...

Assessing competency competently: toward a rational standard for competency-to-stand-trial assessments.

This article reports on a survey of forensic psychiatrists and psychologists who read two case study vignettes and assessed whether each criminal defendant was competent to stand trial, using three differently worded standards of competency: one that focused on whether the defendant's thinking was rational, a second that focused on whether the defendant's behavior was rational, and a third that...