Biographical Sketch
Jack A. Naglieri, Ph.D., is Research Professor
at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia,
Senior Research Scientist at the Devereux Center for Resilient
Children and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at George Mason
University. He is a Fellow of APA Divisions 15 and 16 and the
recipient of the 2011 Italian American Psychology Assembly Award
for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology, a Fellow of APA
Divisions 15 and 16, and recipient of APA Division 16 Senior
Scientist Award (2001). Since the late 1970s, Dr. Naglieri has
focused his efforts on theoretical and psychometric issues
concerning intelligence, cognitive interventions, diagnosis of
learning and emotional disorders, and theoretical and measurement
issues pertaining to protective factors related to resilience. Dr.
Naglieri is the author or co-author of more than 250 scholarly
papers, books, and tests. His scholarly research includes
investigations related to exceptionalities, psychometric studies of
tests, examination of race, gender, and ethnic differences in
cognitive processing fair assessment using nonverbal and cognitive
processing tests, and identification of gifted minorities, IDEA and
identification of specific learning disabilities; and cognitively
based mathematics interventions.
Achilles
N. Bardos, Ph.D., is a Professor of School Psychology at
the University of Northern Colorado. A graduate of the Ohio State
University, he has been a faculty member at the University of
Northern Colorado since 1990. His teaching and research interests
include psychological and educational assessment, measurement,
computer applications in psychology, and program evaluation. He has
published many articles and presented over 120 papers and workshops
at national and international conferences. He is the co-author of
the Behavior Intervention Monitoring Assessment System (BIMAS;
McDougal, Bardos & Meier, 2011), co-author of the Reading
Competency Scales (RCI; Bardos & Naglieri, in press), author of
the Basic Achievement Skills Inventory (BASI-Comprehensive Bardos,
2004) a multi-level achievement test and the BASI-Verbal & Math
Skills Survey (BASI: Survey, 2004). He also co-authored the General
Ability Measure for Adults (GAMA: Naglieri, Bardos, 1997) a
non-verbal intelligence test; and the Draw A Person: Screening
Procedure for Emotional Disturbance (DAP:SPED: Naglieri, McNeish,
and Bardos,1991). Dr. Bardos consulted in the development of other
intelligence and personality tests.