Speaker Bios

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.