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2004 Division
5 Award Winners Dr. Liora
Pedhazur Schmelkin: Recipient of the 2004 Division 5 Jacob Cohen Award
for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Mentoring Dr.
Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin is the winner of the
2004 Distinguished Teaching/Mentoring Award. Dr. Schmelkin will be
presented with a plaque at the Division 5 business meeting at the 2004
APA annual meeting in Honolulu and will have an article about her
teaching and mentoring published in the Score newsletter. Dr. Schmelkin
received her Ph.D. in 1979 from New York University. She is
currently the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and the Leo A. Guthart
Distinguished Professor of Teaching Excellence at Hofstra University
where she has taught a variety of quantitative courses for almost 25
years. Dr. Schmelkin has distinguished herself through her
university teaching and mentoring, her workshop presentations, her
didactic-oriented publications, and her editorial work. She has
published on book with E. J. Pedhazur, Measurement, Design, and Analysis:
An Integrated Approach, and five chapters and reports. In
1990 she became a founding member of Hofstra's Center for Teaching
Excellence and in 1991 became the Center's director. In this
role, she is committed to fostering excellence in teaching, learning,
research, and other scholarly activities. Dr. Douglas
Jackson: Recipient of the 2004 Division 5 Samuel J. Messick Award for
Distinguished Scientific Contributions Dr.
Douglas Jackson is the winner of the
2004 Division 5 Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. He will
present an award's address at the 112th annual meeting of the American
Psychological Association in Honolulu, Hawaii this July-August and at
that time will be awarded a plaque. Dr. Jackson received his
Ph.D. in 1955 from Purdue University and currently is President of
Sigma Assessment Systems, Inc and Professor Emeritus at the University
of Western Ontario. Dr. jackson has been uniquely at the
forefront of many developments that cut across the interests of
Division 5, that is, to evaluation, measurement, as well as statistical
methods. He is best known for his scientific contributions to
fields such as personality assessment, personality structure, person
perception, vocational interests, personnel selection, assessment of
aptitude, as well as methodological issues such as components vs.
factor analysis and content vs. style in responding. Dr. Jackson
is unique in the field for his continuing success, across decades, in
developing scientifically valid tests to measure important
characteristics of human functioning, thereby impacting not only
scientists but also ordinary individuals. He is justly proud that
over 500,000 people have taken the Jackson Vocational Interests Survey
across the years. Dr. Jackson's research achievements are indeed
legendary, including over 10 published tests, over 250 published
articles and four co-authored books; including one book and twenty-six
papers jointly published with Sam Messick across several decades.
He has received many awards including the Saul Sells Award for Lifetime
Contributions to Multivariate Behavioral Research from the Society of
Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He has been President of
Division 5, the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and
the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is a
fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Psychological
Association, and three APA divisions (5, 8, 12). Dr.
Kristopher J. Preacher: Recipient of the 2004 Division 5 Distinguished
Dissertation Award Dr.
Kristopher J. Preacher is winner of the 2004
Division 5 Distinguished Dissertation Award. Dr. Preacher will
receive a check and a plaque and will present a dissertation research
summary at the 2004 APA annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr.
Preacher received his Ph.D. June 2003 from the Department of Psychology
at the Ohio State University. His dissertation director was Dr.
Robert C. MacCullum. He is currently in a postdoctoral position
at the University of North Carolina. His dissertation examined an
important issue in the analysis of covariance structures: model
complexity. At the 2004 APA annual meeting, Dr. Preacher will
present a talk on The Role of Model
Complexity in the Evaluation of Structural Equation Models. |
Updated February 18, 2005