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.