Randy W. Kamphaus, Ph.D.
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Dr. Randy W. Kamphaus is the dean and distinguished research professor of the College of Education at Georgia State University.
Previously, Dr. Kamphaus served as distinguished research professor and head of the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. He received teaching, mentoring, and research awards while a member of the faculty at the University of Georgia from 1986 to 2007.
Dr. Kamphaus' research focuses on child screening and intervention for behavioural and emotional problems of childhood that impede learning, cross-cultural studies of child adjustment in school, and classification methods for child behaviour and adjustment. His current research project is a four year longitudinal study of the validity of early detection methods for behavioural and emotional problems conducted in cooperation with the Los Angeles Unified School District and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences of the US Department of Education. He has authored or co-authored 12 books, six psychological tests, and more than 70 scientific journal articles and book chapters (in both English and Spanish) among other publications. He is best known for his creation of the Behavior Assessment System for Children (with Dr. Cecil Reynolds), a set of measures for assessing the behavioural and emotional adjustment of children that is used worldwide in countries such as South Africa, Korea, and Spain, and by most major school districts in the United States and Canada to assess thousands of children each day.
Dr. Kamphaus holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology from the University of Georgia, a master's in general psychology from the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a bachelor's in psychology from Quincy University. He has contributed extensively to his profession, serving as past-president and election as Fellow of the Division of School Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He began a five-year term as editor of the scientific journal School Psychology Quarterly in May 2007.
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