Invited Speakers
Keynote Presenters | Workshop
Presenters
Keynote Presenters
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Prof.
Dave Bartram
SHL Group Plc.
Dave Bartram is Past President of the International Test
Commission and is heading ITC projects on international guidelines
for standards in test use and standards for computer-based
testing and the Internet. He is President-elect of IAAP Division
2 and Chair of the British Psychological Society's Steering
Committee on Test Standards. He is leading a European working
party on the harmonization of test user |
qualifications across Europe.
Dave is Research Director for SHL Group plc. Prior to his appointment
with SHL in 1998, he was Dean of the Faculty of Science and the
Environment, and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology
at the University of Hull. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist,
Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a Fellow
of the Ergonomics Society.
He has worked as a consultant with a range of national and international
organizations both in the UK and abroad, specializing in the design,
implementation and validation of assessment procedures and personnel
selection systems at all levels. His specialist area is computer-based
testing and Internet assessment systems.
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Fanny
M. Cheung, Ph.D., OBE, JP
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fanny Cheung received her B.A. from the University of California,
Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
She was Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and currently
is Professor of Psychology and Chairperson of the Department
of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor
Cheung is past president of the Hong Kong Psychological Society,
a past President of the |
Division of Clinical and Community Psychology of the International
Association of Applied Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Psychological
Association.
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Elias Mpofu, Ph.D., CRC
Department of Counselor Education, Counseling
Psychology and Rehabilitation Services
Pennsylvania State University
Elias Mpofu is an Associate Professor of Rehabilitation
Services Education at the Pennsylvania State University.
Prior to his current
appointment, he was an Associate Professor at the University
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Zimbabwe 's Educational Foundations Department. Elias Mpofu
is the representative for sub-Saharan Africa on the Executive Committee
of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology,
and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Psychology in Africa.
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Robert
J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education
and Director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities,
Competencies, and Expertise at Yale University. Professor
Sternberg received the Ph.D. from Stanford University and
the B.A. from Yale University. He holds honorary doctorates
from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; the University
of Leuven, Belgium; the University of Cyprus; and the University
of Paris V, France. Professor Sternberg is the author of
over 950 journal articles, book |
chapters, and books, and has received over $18 million in government
and other grants and contracts for his research. Professor Sternberg
is the 2003 President of the American Psychological Association.
He has been President of the Divisions of General Psychology, Educational
Psychology, Psychology and the Arts, and Theoretical and Philosophical
Psychology of the APA and has served as Editor of the Psychological
Bulletin and is Editor of Contemporary Psychology.
Workshop Presenters
Barbara M. Byrne Ph.D. Professor
Emeritus
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa
Workshop Title:
Seeking Equitable
Assessment Through Tests for Multigroup Invariance
Brief Biographical Statement:
Barbara M. Byrne is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychology
at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Byrne's research focuses
on construct validation issues related to the structure and measurement
of self-concept, burnout, and depression. Methodologically, her
research centers on the sound application of structural equation
modeling (SEM) in the validation of measuring instruments and psychological
constructs. She has conducted 40 workshops related to the application
of SEM and is the author of four popular introductory books on
the topic, the most recent of these being Structural Equation
Modeling with AMOS; Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming (2001).
In addition to the publication of 11 book chapters and more than
65 articles, most of which have addressed SEM application issues,
Dr Byrne is the author of an important reference book related to
self-concept measurement, Measuring Self-concept Across the
Lifespan: Issues and Instrumentation (1996). She is the recipient
of three Distinguished Teaching Awards presented by the Canadian
Psychological Association (1995), the American Psychological Association
(APA; 2002), and the APA, Division 5 (Jacob Cohen Award; 2002).
Dr. Byrne is a Fellow in the APA, is a Foundation member on the
International Board of the SELF Research Centre, University of
Western Sydney, Australia, and is an elected member of the Society
of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. She currently serves as
one of two APA representatives on the Joint Committee for Testing
Practices, is a member of the APA Committee on Psychological Tests
and Assessment, is the Treasurer for both the International Test
Commission and Division 5 of the APA, and holds memberships in
the APA and International Association of Cross-cultural Psychology.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Dr. Salvador Hector Ochoa received his doctorate in school psychology
from Texas A&M University in 1989. Dr. Ochoa is an Associate
Professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Ochoa's research has
focused on bilingual assessment, social status, and educational
programming issues for Hispanic students. He has obtained more
than 3.3 million dollars in grants to sponsor and facilitate
his research and training activities. Dr. Ochoa has conducted
workshops on bilingual assessment in 15 states, and he is on
the editorial boards of the School Psychology Review, Journal
of Psychoeducational Assessment, and School Psychology
Quarterly. He has received two teaching awards while at Texas
A&M.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Peter K. Isquith, Ph.D. is a pediatric neuropsychologist at Dartmouth
Medical School where he is engaged in clinical practice with
children and adolescents. His research interests focus on measurement
and development of self-regulation across the age spectrum and
implications of executive deficits for everyday functioning.
He has a special interest in neuropsychological assessment in
deaf individuals. Dr. Isquith is the co-author of the Behavior
Rating Inventory of Executive Function.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Dr. Lichtenberger is a licensed clinical psychologist in California
who trained under the tutelage of Drs. Nadeen and Alan Kaufman.
She is a consultant at the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience
of The Salk Institute and has written several books and book
chapters on a variety of assessment instruments. Her writing
has focused on the K-ABC, KAIT, WAIS-III, WISC-III, WPPSI-III,
and WMS-III, as well as case report documentation. She is also
a co-author of the forthcoming book on the KABC-II, Essentials
of KABC-II Assessment.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Thomas Oakland is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University
of Florida. He is President of the International Foundation for
Children's Education and past-presidents of the International
School Psychology Association and the International Test Commission.
He has worked in more than 40 countries. Dr. Oakland is the recipient
of Distinguished Service Awards from American Psychological Association's
Division of School Psychology and the International School Psychology
Association, the 2002 National Association of School Psychology's
Legend Award, and the 2003 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions
to the Advancement of Psychology Internationally.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Dr. Roid is currently Visiting Professor and, formerly, Scholar
in Residence at Simpson College and Graduate School in California.
He was previously Dunn Professor of Educational and Psychological
Assessment at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and formerly
a Professor of Psychology at George Fox University and an Assistant
Professor of Psychology at McGill University. He was Senior Project
Director for The Psychological Corporation, where he was the
initial project director for the WISC-III and related tests (e.g.,
WIAT, WPPSI-R, WAIS-III). He also was Director of Research for
Western Psychological Services in Los Angeles.
Dr. Roid earned an A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D.
in psychological assessment and from the University of Oregon,
1969. He is the author or co-author of 5 published tests, 2 books,
8 book chapters, more than 20 research articles in refereed journals,
and more than 50 refereed convention papers at APA, AERA, NCME,
NASP, and other professional conferences. He has been a technical
consultant for more than 40 published tests and manuals. He is
a Fellow of Division 5, of the American Psychological Association,
and Consulting Editor for Applied Measurement in Education.
He received a Diplomate designation by the American Board of Assessment
Psychology in 1996.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Dr. Robert Stern is Associate Professor of Neurology, Associate
Director of the Clinical Core of the federally-funded Alzheimer's
Disease Center (ADC), and Co-Director of the Memory Assessment
Clinics at Boston University (B.U.) School of Medicine. Prior
to joining the faculty at B.U., he was on the faculty at Brown
Medical School from 1993-2003, where he was Associate Professor
of Psychiatry & Neurology and Director of Neuropsychology
and the Memory and Cognitive Assessment Program at Rhode Island
Hospital. He has published extensively on various aspects of
neuropsychological assessment and is the author of two previously
published instruments ( Visual Analog Mood Scales; Boston
Qualitative Scoring System for the Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure ),
in addition to the more recent NAB. Other areas of funded
research include neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric aspects
of dementia, thyroid-brain relationships, and cognition and HIV-associated
CNS disturbance. He has received several NIH and other national
and local grants. Dr. Stern has published over 180 journal articles,
chapters, and abstracts, is the recipient of many awards and
honors, and is a Fellow of both the American Neuropsychiatric
Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. He has
served on several national grant review committees, and is an
Associate Editor of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical
Neurosciences.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Lawrence G. Weiss, PhD. is Vice President of Psychological Assessment
Products at The Psychological Corporation and adjunct faculty
at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is co-editor
of Culture and Children's Intelligence published
by Academic Press.
Brief Biographical Statement:
Bruno D. Zumbo is currently Professor of Measurement and Statistics
at the University of British Columbia (UBC). His research interests
are in psychometric models and methods, and statistical theory
and practice. He has published extensively on theoretical and practical
matters in measurement invariance and on latent variable models.
In addition to an active scholarly research program he is an award-winning
teacher having been honored in 1998 with the University-wide Excellence
in Teaching Award. He has been a consultant for a number of organizations
including the Canadian Department of National Defense, the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Graduate Management
Admission Council in the United States. He is editor of the International
Journal of Testing and Associate Editor of the Journal
of Modern Applied Statistical Methods.
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