Billy McCroskey:
CLASS OF 1963
Toccoa High SchoolClass of 1963
Toccoa, GA
University of Georgia - Graduate SchoolClass of 1979
Athens, GA
North Georgia College & State UniversityClass of 1974
Dahlonega, GA
Piedmont CollegeClass of 1972
Demorest, GA
Toccoa Elementary SchoolClass of 1958
Toccoa, GA
Billy's Story
Educational Background: Ph.D. - Counseling & Human Services - University of Georgia: 1979. M.Ed. - Rehabilitation Counseling - University of Georgia: 1973. B.S. - Psychology - North Georgia College: 1972.
Dr. McCroskey is a Worker-Trait-Factor Job-Person Matching Theoretician, Statistician and Computer Programs Developer. Since 1977, Dr. McCroskey has engaged in a wide variety of State and National research and statistical analyses. These have lead to the development of the McCroskey Vocational Quotient System (MVQS), the McCroskey Dictionary of Occupational Titles (McDOT, which led to the MVQS Computerized Job Person Matching Transferable Skills Analysis program). Dr McCroskey has developed other computerized programs with such concepts as Occupational Density based on Current Employment and Job Openings in 3,298 U.S. County, Borough, Commonwealth, Island Possession, and Canada Province Labor Markets (from 1991 thru 2021), Job Reinforcers-Human Values Agreement, and Job Earning Capacity Prediction Estimation (for all available jobs in all 3,298 County, State and U.S. National Labor Markets and all Canadian Provinces from 1998 thru 2021).
Dr. McCroskey has worked as an Educator, Program Evaluation Research Specialist, Research Grant Writer, Vocational and Rehabilitation Economics Analyst, Work Evaluator, Rehabilitation Counselor, Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant and Vocational Expert for the Social Security Administration Bureau of Hearings and Appeals. Dr. McCroskey has taught graduate level courses in such areas as: Rehabilitation Counseling, Career Development, Vocational Evaluation, Psychological Testing and Advanced Statistical Ana...Expand for more
lysis Courses at the University of Georgia, Mississippi State University and Mankato State University. Since 1987, Dr. McCroskey has field-mentored several graduate students in research design, data collection, statistical analysis and completion of Doctoral Dissertations on Testing, Hedonics, Earning Capacity and Mental Health. Dr. McCroskey is currently co-editor of the Journal of Forensic Vocationology (posted on the Internet). He serves as a peer reviewer for The Earnings Analyst Journal of the American Rehabilitation Economics Association and has served as associate editor and peer reviewer for the American Board of Vocational Experts' Journal of Forensic Vocational Assessment for several years. Since 2004, he has been a Board Member of ABVE and was Chair of the ABVE Test Maintenance and Knowledge Enhancement Seminar Committee, which developed and did scientific test validation research on the National ABVE Vocational Expert Certification Exam.
Since 1977, to date and continuing, Dr. McCroskey has authored or co-authored more than 100 empirical research Journal Articles, Books and Manuals, and has provided thousands of Vocational and Rehabilitation Economic Analyses, Reports and related Expert Witness Testimony. He developed McCroskey Transferable Skills (MTS) Analysis, Critical Variables/Critical Values and Geo-Location Job Openings / Occupational Density Theories and Related Reliability/Validity Research at the 9-digit McDOT Code Level for inclusion in MVQS Dictionary of Occupational Titles and Volcano Job-Person Matching TSA Program. To find out more about Dr. McCroskey, search for Billy J. McCroskey or Vocationology on the internet.
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