Nadeen L. Kaufman
Dr Nadeen L. Kaufman and Dr Alan S. Kaufman have been at Yale University’s Child Study Center in the School of Medicine since 1997, as Clinical Professor of Psychology and Lecturer on the clinical faculty, respectively. Together they combine expertise in psychometrics, test construction, and clinical assessment.
A student of Robert L. Thorndike at Columbia University, Alan served a “clinical apprenticeship” with David Wechsler and Dorothea McCarthy while employed from 1968 to 1974 as assistant director of test research and supervisor of statistics in the test division of The Psychological Corporation. He helped develop the McCarthy Scales and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and supervised the standardisation of both tests.
Nadeen, who earned graduate degrees in psychology, reading and learning disabilities, and special education (neuroscience) from Columbia University, has been a teacher of learning-disabled children, school psychologist, learning disabilities specialist, university professor and founder-director of several psychoeducational clinics. She also was a direct participant in the development and standardization of the McCarthy Scales and WISC-R .
From 1974 to 1997, Alan and Nadeen trained school psychologists and clinical psychologists, and supervised graduate-student research, at the University of Georgia, the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois, the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego campus, and the University of Alabama. The research team that they supervised while at the University of Georgia in 1978-79 to develop the original K-ABC included several individuals who went on to become international leaders in assessment.
In addition to the K-ABC, which has been translated, adapted, and standardized in more than 15 countries, Alan and Nadeen have developed a variety of other psychological and educational tests published by Pearson, including the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement (K-TEA/NU), Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT), and the second editions of both (KTEA-II and KBIT-2). The Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills (K-SEALS) and the Cognitive/Language Profile of the Early Screening Profiles address the preschool level. The Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT), the Kaufman Short Neuropsychological Assessment Procedure (K-SNAP), and the Kaufman Functional Academic Skills Test (K-FAST) extend through the adult life span.
Alan, a co-editor of the journal Research in the Schools from 1992-2004, serves on the board of five professional journals and has published 17 books and more than 200 articles, reviews, and chapters in professional journals and books in the fields of school psychology, special education, clinical psychology, neuropsychology and educational psychology.
Among Alan’s books are Intelligent Testing with the WISC-R (1979), Intelligent Testing with the WISC-III (1994), Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence (1990; 2nd ed. with Liz Lichtenberger, 2002), and several that he has co-authored for Wiley’s Essentials of Assessment series , including Essentials of WPPSI-III Assessment (with Liz Lichtenberger, 2004), Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment (with Dawn Flanagan, 2004), and Essentials of KABC-II Assessment (with Liz Lichtenberger and Nadeen, 2004). Alan and Nadeen co-edit this series and are co-founding editors of two other Wiley series, Essentials of Mental Health Practice and Essentials of Behavioral Science.
Other projects include co-authoring Clinical Evaluation of Young Children with the McCarthy Scales (1977) and Essentials of Assessment Report Writing (with Liz Lichtenberger and Nancy Mather, 2004), and co-editing Specific Learning Disabilities and Difficulties in Children and Adolescents: Psychological Assessment and Evaluation (2001). In addition, many of Nadeen’s case reports have been published in a variety of books, and she has authored or co-authored many articles, chapters and reviews in professional journals and books. Nadeen is a former associate editor of School Psychology Review.
Alan is a fellow of four divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA) and of the American Psychological Society, and is a recipient of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence (1989) and the Mid-South Educational Research Association Outstanding Research Award (1988 & 1993).
In 1997, he was awarded APA’s prestigious Senior Scientist Award from Division 16 (School Psychology). Nadeen is a Fellow of APA’s Division 16 (School Psychology) and of the American Psychological Society.