Stephanie A. Lai, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Athens, Georgia

Meet and engage with clients (K-12 educational agencies), develop proposals, create and manage budgets, design and implement assessment programs including developing project plans, identifying and allocating staff, mitigating potential project risks, and managing the completion of activities and deliverables end-to-end.

Athens, Georgia Area

Responsible for overseeing the processes of item development, test form creation, test administration, and scoring and reporting for the CRCT-M tests, a grade-level alternative assessment, with the Georgia Department of Education. This includes supervising a team which includes content specialists, graphic designers, and psychometricians.

Athens, Georgia Area

Project: Criterion-Referenced Competency Test-Modified (CRCT-M)Developed the reading tests of the Georgia CRCT-M in Grades 3-8 for the Spring 2011 and Summer 2011 Administrations, specifically including item development for field-testing and operational form/test creation

Athens, Georgia Area

Conducted qualitative analysis on Advancing Recovery data (e.g., interviews and field notes) and wrote the results and discussion sections in two articles (to be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals) to resolve system barriers in the partnerships that will lead to long-standing changes in treatment via the integration of evidenced-based.

Princeton, NJ

The research focused on the examination in the application of Cognitively-Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning (CBAL) writing materials in a classroom setting and to observe formative assessment techniques that may later translate into CBAL activities to support instruction in schools.Used qualitative methods to analyze daily observations and field.

Athens, Georgia Area

The research focuses on the impact of the K-PAVE vocabulary intervention on student’s vocabulary and literacy achievement and on teacher’s vocabulary with the goal of enhancing literacy in kindergarten students in the Mississippi Delta. Managed a staff of transcribers for large data set of child language samples (over 1000 read-alouds) and analyzed for.

Gainesville, Florida Area

Course: Introduction to Educational PsychologyDeveloped course and organized materials including syllabus; lectured various topics and perspectives as related to the theory of learning including development, behavioral and cognitive perspectives, social-cultural factors that affect learning, research methodologies, assessments, and prevention/intervention.

Ph.D., Educational Psychology

Applied Cognition and Development

M.A., Educational Psychology

B.S., Psychology, Spanish