2003 Division 5 Award Winners

Dr. Lisa Harlow: Co-Recipient of the 2003 Division 5 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring

Dr. Lisa Harlow is the co-winner of the 2003 Distinguished Teaching/Mentoring Award. Dr. Harlow will be presented with a plaque at the Division 5 business meeting at the 2003 APA annual meeting in Toronto and will have an article about her teaching and mentoring published in the Score newsletter. Dr. Harlow received her Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Rhode Island where she teaches courses in quantitative methods for social sciences. Dr. Harlow has distinguished herself in her university teaching and mentoring, in her workshop presentations, in her didactic-oriented publications on significance testing, and in her consulting and her research on Quantitative Psychology and Health Psychology topics including her research on Learning Enhancement Activities Rousing Noesis (LEARN). She has published two books including the very important What if there were no significant tests and authored or co-authored over 50 research articles. In.1998, Dr. Harlow began to study learning environments and to develop learning activities to enhance student involvement in quantitative methods and has presented the results of her research each year since 1998 at APA conventions. She spent a year in Canada on a Fulbright expanding on these ideas and is currently a Co-PI on an NSF grant applying LEARN across five disciplines.

Dr. Abigail Panter: Co-Recipient of the 2003 Division 5 Jacob Cohen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring

Dr. Abigail Panter is the co-winner of the 2003 Distinguished Teaching/Mentoring Award. Dr. Panter will be presented with a plaque at the Division 5 business meeting at the 2003 APA annual meeting in Toronto and will have an article about her teaching and mentoring published in the Score newsletter. Dr. Panter received her Ph.D. in 1989 from the Department of Psychology at New York University. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches courses in quantitative methodology. Dr. Panter has distinguished herself in her university teaching and mentoring, in her workshop presentations, in her didactic-oriented writings and presentations, and in her consulting and research on Quantitative Methods and Health Psychology. She has co-authored three edited books on her research and evaluation of HIV/AIDS and co-authored over 50 research articles. Dr. Panter received the Psi Chi Undergraduate Professor of the Year Award in 1997 and 1992; the University of North Carolina Tanner Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence in 1993; and in 2000 was elected a member of the University of North Carolina Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

Dr. R. Darrell Bock: Recipient of the 2003 Division 5 Samuel J. Messick Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions

Dr. Darrell Bock is the winner of the 2003 Division 5 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. Dr. Bock received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Chicago and is currently a Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he has been since 1964. His 33 nominees noted his outstanding contributions and innovations in multivariate methods that started a half a century ago and include creating a rigorous estimation algorithm for marginal maximum likelihood estimation, models for nominal data, and software in item response theory, writing the first generally available computer package for multivariate analysis (Multivariance), and developing models and software for the analysis of growth and change and multilevel models. Dr. Bock also has made substantial scientific contributions to the fields of covariance structure analysis, variance component analysis, categorical variable models, and models of preference and choice. Many of his nominators remarked that there is not a day that goes by in their professional lives that does not involve the scientific contributions of Dr. Bock. He has received distinguished contribution awards and recognition from a number of professional associations including the National Council on Measurement in Education (1990), the Educational Testing Service (1991), APA Division 5 (lifetime contributions to evaluation, measurement, and statistics, 1997), and the American Educational Research Association (1999). Dr. Bock presented a talk at the 111th APA annual meeting in Toronto, Ontario, where he will be awarded with a plaque. His award was announced at the 2002 Division 5 business meeting in Chicago.

Dr. Sarah McConnell Hartz: Recipient of the 2003 Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award

Dr. Sarah McConnell Hartz was selected as the winner of the 2003 Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award. Dr. Hartz received her Ph.D. in May 2002 from the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is currently enrolled in the Medical Scholars Program (MD/PhD program) at the University of Illinois. In summer, 2003 she plans to transfer to the University of Iowa School of Medicine to finish the last two years of medical school. At the 2003 APA annual meeting in Chicago, Dr. Hartz presented a talk on A Bayesian Framework for the Unified Model for Assessing Cognitive Abilities: Blending Theory with Practicality.