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Jeffery P. Braden

Department of Psychology
Poe Hall 625
Box 7650
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7650
Phone: 919-513-7393 (v/TTY)
jeff_braden@ncsu.edu

Brief Biography

Jeff Braden is Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University. Prior to coming to NC State, Jeff taught and directed school psychology programs at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, San Jose State University, and the University of Florida. He holds graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, Gallaudet University, and Beloit College. Jeff has presented more than 275 papers at state, national, and international meetings and published more than 160 articles, books, book chapters, and other products on assessment, school psychology, intelligence, and deafness. His current research includes an evaluation of North Carolina's Problem-Solving Model, a study of the treatment utility of assessment for educational consultation, and research on cognitive tests. Jeff also developed a large-scale problem-solving program to prevent academic failure with inner-city urban youth in Chicago Public Schools, and consulted with performance assessment research funded by the Federal government. He continues to provide in-service training for educators on educational accountability programs (No Child Left Untested!) and inclusion of students with disabilities in these programs throughout the United States; his efforts earned him a Fulbright Scholar Award (to Athens, Greece) in 2000, and the 2001 Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award for outreach teaching from the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Education

  • PhD 1985. Major: School Psychology. Completed APA-approved School Psychology Program. University of California, Berkeley, CA.
  • EdS 1980. Major: School Psychology. Minor Assessment of special populations. Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.
  • MA 1979. Major: Developmental Psychology. Minor Relationship of deafness to development and cognition. Gallaudet University.
  • MAT 1977. Major: Elementary Education. Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
  • BA 1976. Major: Psychology. Beloit College.

Current Teaching

  • PSY 200 Introduction to Psychology
  • PSY 510 Educational Accountability for Special Populations
  • PSY 710 Developmental Psychopathology
  • PSY 722 Individual Intelligence Measurement

Current Research Interests

  • Psychoeducational assessment, including clinical assessment/intervention and large-scale testing.
  • Students with disabilities, particularly those who are deaf/Deaf.
  • School reform, accountability, and inclusion of students with disabilities.
  • Continuing professional development, particularly via distance education.

Recent Publications

Elliott. S. N., Braden, J. P., & White, J. L., & Roach, A. H. (in press). Assessing one and all: Educational accountability for students with disabilities (2nd ed.). Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.

Braden, J. P., & Martin, P. P. (in press). Prevention. In R. J. Morris & T. R. Kratochwill (eds.). The practice of therapy with children (4th ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.

Braden, J. P., & Tayrose, M. P. (in press). Best practices in educational accountability: High stakes testing and educational reform. In A. Thomas & J. Grimes. (Eds.): Best practices in school psychology (5th ed. Silver Spring, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.

Braden, J. P. & Iribarren, J. (in press). Review of the WISC-IV Spanish. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Braden, J. P. & Ouzts, S. M. (2005). A review of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children—Second Ed. In R. A. Spies & B. S. Plake (Eds.) The sixteenth mental measurements yearbook (pp. 517-520). Lincoln, NB: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, University of Lincoln Press.

Braden, J. P. & Laugle, K. M. (2005). A review of the Auditory Processing Abilities Test. In R. A. Spies & B. S. Plake (Eds.) The sixteenth mental measurements yearbook (pp. 68-70). Lincoln, NB: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, University of Lincoln Press.

Recent Presentations

Braden, J. P. (2006, Dec.). Recent innovations in assessment. Keynote presented to the Annual Meeting of the [Irish] National Educational Psychology Services, Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland.

Braden, J. P. (2006, Sept.). Assessing student growth to foster school excellence. Invited symposium delivered to the 2006 Education Leadership Conference on Promoting Excellence: Using Assessment to Enhance Teaching and Learning, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Braden, J. P. (2006, August). Issues related to the use of appropriate test norms. Paper presented within Byrne, B. (chair) Notion of measurement equivalence across diverse populations—examining the critical issues. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Braden, J. P. (2006, July). Measuring authentic pedagogy and learning for students with disabilities. Invited address to the address to the International Conference on Cognition, Language and Special Education Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Braden, J. P. (2006, July). Response to Intervention: Ensuring reliability, validity, and fairness. Two-day short course delivered to the Florida Association of School Psychologists Annual Summer Institute, Key West, FL.

Braden, J. P. (2006, April). Psychology and deafness: Implications for assessment and intervention. Short course delivered to the National Educational Psychology Service, Cork, Ireland.

Braden, J. P. (2006, March). (When) Do we need “deaf norms?” Invited symposium address, Annual Meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists Special Interest Group for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children and Families, Anaheim, CA.

Braden, J. P. (2006, Jan.). The Carolinas Collaborative: A proposal to build capacity for early intervening and Response to Intervention. Presentation to the South Carolina Department of Public Instruction Learning Disabilities leadership team and the Learning Disabilities Consultant of the Exceptional Children Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Columbia, SC.

Braden, J. P. (2005, Dec.). Building capacity for Response to Intervention in North Carolina. Presentation to the Problem-Solving Advisory Board to the Exceptional Children Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Chapel Hill, NC.

Braden, J. P. (2005, Nov.). Accommodations for psychological assessment of deaf clients. Address to the UK Council on Deafness, London, England.

Braden, J. P. (2005, Nov.). Interpreting WISC-IV results. Address to the National Educational Psychology Service, Dublin, Ireland.

Braden, J. P. (2005, Nov.). High stakes assessments: Consequences for schools and school psychologists. Address to the School Psychology Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Braden, J. P. (2005, Oct.). Understanding adequate yearly progress and what it means for North Carolina psychologists. Address to the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina School Psychology Association, Charlotte, NC.

Braden, J. P., Durbin, K., Pierce, D., Davis, B., & McDonald, T. (2006, Nov.). Using Response to Intervention to reduce disproportionate placements. Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Administrators of Special Education, Savannah, GA.

Kubiszyn, T., Braden, J. P., Ortiz, S. O., & Reshcly, D. R. (2006, August). Response to Intervention Considerations: Reliability, validity, and fairness. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA.

Braden, J. P. (2006, April). The intended and unintended consequences of the new SAT. Paper at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA.

Braden, J. P., Kubiszyn, T. W., Ortiz, S. O., & Reschly, D. R. (2006, April). Preventing “Response to Intervention” failure: Ensuring methods meet assessment standards. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists, Anaheim, CA.