Director, Kevin McGrew, Ph.D.

(last updated 9-01-05)

 

	PhD:  Educational Psychology - University of Minnesota MS:  School Psychology - Moorhead State University
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(9-01-05)

 

Dr. Kevin McGrew is the Director of the Institute on Applied Psychometrics (IAP; www.IAPsych.com) and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.  McGrew has 10 years of experience both as a practicing school psychologist and Professor of Applied Psychology at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.  McGrew has extensive experience in both clinical (1-1) and large-scale assessment and data management and analysis.  Dr. McGrew has published over 60 different journal articles, books or book chapters in the areas of applied psychometrics, educational and psychological measurement, intelligence, psychoeducational assessment, personal competence, community adjustment of individuals with disabilities, and the use of educational indicators for policy research in special education. 

 

McGrew’s experience have included the: (a) directing and completing the calculation of the norms and statistical/psychometric analysis for two editions of the nationally standardized Woodcock-Johnson Battery (WJ-R & WJ-III), (b) conducting research studies with the nationally representative Scales of Independent Behavior (SIB) and Inventory of Client and Agency Planning (ICAP) norm samples, (c) completion of all norm and psychometric analysis for the Minnesota Braille Skills Inventory (MBSI) and the Braille Assessment Inventory (BAI), and (d) directing the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) initial efforts to conduct secondary analysis of national databases to produce outcome reports on students with disabilities. 

 

McGrew has also provided significant consultation, and/or served as an advisory board member, to: (a) test publishers (Riverside Publishing; Psychological Corporation), (b) university research centers (Stanford Research Institute regarding SEELS and NLTS-2; University of Minnesota National Center on Educational Outcomes and Institute on Community Integration; University of Arizona National Research Consortium on Testing and Persons with Disabilities in Higher Education), state departments of education (e.g., Maryland, Florida, Minnesota) and private foundations or research organizations (the Woodcock-Munoz Foundation; AIR National Center on Student Progress Monitoring)

Served for 10 years as a school psychologist in Iowa and Minnesota.

Served for 10 years as a Professor of Applied Psychology at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he taught courses in Educational Psychology.

Currently is a Visiting Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.

Coauthor of the Woodcock-Johnson Battery--Third Edition (WJ III).  He was involved in all aspects of the revision and had primary responsibility for all statistical and psychometric data analyses and for designing the CHC test blueprint for the Tests of Cognitive Abilities.

Currently serving as a measurement consultant to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) on the design for the U. S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) national Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study (SEELS) and the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS-2)

Served as a measurement consultant to Riverside Publishing for the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale--Fifth Edition and to grants that have developed the Minnesota Braille Skills Inventory ((MBSI).

For five years Dr. McGrew served as a Primary Investigator and Senior Researcher for the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) at the University of Minnesota.

Has published over 60 different journal articles, books or book chapters in the areas of applied psychometrics, educational and psychological measurement, intelligence, psychoeducational assessment, personal competence, community adjustment of individuals with disabilities, and the use of educational indicators for policy research in special education. 

Has published three books on the interpretation of intelligence test batteries.  These include:

Clinical interpretation of the Woodcock‑Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability—Revised (McGrew, 1993

The Intelligence Test Desk Reference (ITDR):  Gf-Gc cross-battery assessment (McGrew & Flanagan, 1998)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scales and Gf-Gc theory:  A contemporay approach to interpretation (Flanagan, McGrew, & Ortiz, in 2000). 

First author on the WJ-R technical manual for  the Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery--Revised (WJ-R).  He also coauthored, with Dr. Richard Woodcock, the Subtest norms for the WJ/SIB assessment system. 

Has coauthored a number of psychological assessment instruments.  These include:

Woodcock-Johnson Battery--Third Edition (WJ III)

Woodcock‑McGrew‑Werder Mini‑Battery of Achievement (MBA)

       Sharpe-NcNear-McGrew Braille Assessment  Inventory (BAI). 

 

 

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