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.