QTUG 2011 Presenters
Dr. A. Nayena Blankson
Title: Mediation and moderated mediation using SPSS
Dr. Blankson is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Spelman College. Dr. Blankson graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in psychology and minor in mathematical sciences from Loyola College in Maryland. She earned her Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Southern California where she worked with the late Dr. John L. Horn, as well as Dr. Rand Wilcox. Dr. Blankson then served for two years as a Post-doctoral Research Associate in child development at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her substantive research interests include the organization and development of cognitive abilities as it relates to personality, parenting, and schooling. Her quantitative interests include psychometrics and structural equation modeling.
Dr. Geoff Cumming
Title: The New Statistics: Why, How, and Where Next?
Professor Geoff Cumming was a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, England, early in his career, and retired in 2008, so he can follow his passion -- building tools to help in understanding introductory statistics and statistical inference, and writing his book: 'Understanding The New Statistics: Effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis'. This book is in Dr Harlow's Multivariate Applications Series, published by Routledge, and will be released in August 2011. Geoff's prolific research on statistical cognition helps researchers find better ways to do science than the traditional approach of relying on statistical significance testing and p values. He also believes that understanding comes through visual images -- especially interactive graphical simulations of (cool) statistical things. Geoff is married to Lindsay, has three children who are now grown up and scattered around the world; and two grandsons. He lives in a beautiful country home and garden in Melbourne, rides a mountain bike every day, and enjoys opera, woodworking and word games. See more about Professor Cumming and his Exploratory Software for Confidence Intervals (ESCI) that runs with Microsoft Excel; and encourages better understanding of sampling, confidence intervals, meta-analysis and other methods, at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/psy/staff/cumming.html
Dr. Kimberley Freeman
Dr. Freeman is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Educational Psychology in the School of Education at Howard University. She is the Principal Investigator of a mixed-method education research project examining the best practice in science and mathematics teacher education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), supported by the National Science Foundation and the Thurgood Marshall College Foundation. Dr. Freeman has raised more than one million dollars in extramural grant funding to support her research and has trained more than 20 graduate students in her research lab since 2007. Dr. Freeman has received many awards including the prestigious Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, and the Emerging Scholar Award from the Howard University Faculty Senate. Prior to joining the faculty at Howard University, Dr. Freeman served as an Advanced Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University, Visiting Assistant Professor at George Washing University, and the second Executive Director of the Fredrick Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Dr. Freeman received her Ph.D. with distinction from the Combined Program in Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan and her Bachelor’s degree from Spelman College.
Dr. Keith Maddox
Title: Perspectives on Racial Phenotypicality Bias
Dr. Maddox is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Tufts University and director of the Tufts University Social Cognition (TUSC) lab. He received his A.B. (1991) in psychology from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Maddox is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including a graduate student fellowship from the National Science Foundation in 1993, a President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship from the University of California in 1997, and grants from the National Science Foundation, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service. Currently, Professor Maddox is a Faculty Fellow of the Tisch College developing a project to explore the impact of racial phenotypicality bias in communities surrounding Tufts. The TUSC Lab is focused on research programs examining social cognitive aspects of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, seeking to understand topics such as: cognitive representations and stereotypes of African Americans based on variation in skin tone and other phenotypic characteristics; the experience of stereotype threat among members of socially marginalized groups; how the perception of ulterior motives can influence social judgments; the role of social categories in spatial representation; and individual student projects covering a range of social psychological topics. As the United States becomes a more diverse society, issues surrounding stereotyping and discrimination will continue to gain importance. The long-range goal is to further the understanding of the representation of stereotypic knowledge and its implications for the behavior and treatment of members of stereotyped groups.
Dr. Tabitha McKinley
Dr. McKinley was first introduced to QTUG in the summer of 2006 as a graduate student. At that time the conference was held at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA. The summer of 2007 culminated with Tabitha earning an MA in Educational Psychology with a concentration in Research, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics, and again attending the QTUG conference held at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California. There she shared a paper on the Cross Validation of the African American Acculturation Scale with fellow QTUG participant and University of Nevada Las Vegas student Rhea Watson.
In December of 2010, under the direction of Dr. Deborah Bandalos, Tabitha completed her PhD in Educational Psychology in the area of Research, Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics from the University of Georgia. She currently resides in Lawrenceville, New Jersey where she works in the NAEP services group for Educational Testing Services (ETS) in Princeton. In her spare time she enjoys running, baking, spending time outdoors with her husband Malik Sr. and their two children Malik Jr. and Katie. She is currently training for an all-women’s triathlon and learning how to play golf. It with great honor that she returns to her undergraduate Alma Mater, Howard University to present her talk. Dr. McKinley holds a B.S. in Biology from Howard University, and MEd in Secondary Education from The George Washington University and the MA and PhD from the University of Georgia.
Dr. Cynthia Winston
Dr. Winston is an Associate Professor in the Howard University Department of Psychology and Principal of Winston Synergy L.L.C www.winstonsynergy.com . She is a leading edge narrative personality psychologist whose professional career is devoted to understanding narrative identity, as well as the psychology of race, racism, and success within lives and educational contexts. Dr. Winston has been awarded the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Professor Fellowship by Brown University, the Emerging Scholar Award from the Howard University Faculty Senate, and the National Science Foundation Early Career Award for the most promising early career scientists and engineers in the nation. As founder and Principal Investigator of the Identity & Success Research Lab http://web.mac.com/cwinston.isrl, she conducts interdisciplinary research and trains psychology, computer science, education, science, and engineering students. Adopting a novel interdisciplinary approach, her research integrates personality psychology, narrative psychology, educational psychology, and psychology engineering. Through integrating digital technology with narrative, survey, and case study research methods, she has created the Identity and Success Life Story Research Method to stimulate the construction of autobiographical memories, life review, and personality assessment. She has received more than $10,000,000 in extramural grant funding. Dr. Winston is the former Director of Educational, Fellowship, and Internship Programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and Director for the NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate at Howard University. She earned her Masters degree in Psychology and Ph.D. in Psychology & Education from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s of Science from Howard University.
QTUG 2011 Discussion Leaders -- See Biosketch at link below:
(or above on this page for those presenting this year)
Dr. Courtney Ferrel Aklin, National Institute of Neurological Disorders
Dr. A. Nayena Blankson, Spelman College
Dr. Geoff Cumming, La Trobe University (Australia)
Dr. Herbert Eber, Psychological Resources
Dr. Kimberley Freeman, Howard University
Dr. Lisa Harlow, University of Rhode Island
Dr. Keith Maddox, Tufts University
Dr. Tabitha McKinley, Educational Testing Services (ETS)
Dr. LeShawndra Price, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Dr. Della Brown White, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Dr. Cynthia Winston, Howard University