Psychological and Educational Assessment: Applied psychometrics, with a particular focus on measuring human cognitive abilities (i.e. cognitive processes, intelligence) and academic achievement (i.e. learning). Secondary areas of interests include: technological advancements in the assessment of student performance (e.g. automated essay scoring, computer adaptive testing) and quantitative methods
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Learning and Development: The relationships between cognitive abilities and learning, predicting response to academic interventions, targeted educational supports for struggling learners, and developmental psychopathology.
School Psychology – Training and Professional Issues: Training issues/challenges in school and clinical child psychology, with a primary focus on assessment. Areas of interest include psycho-educational assessment practices, report writing, test administration and interpretation.