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Randy W. Kamphaus
Distinguished Research Professor of Educational Psychology
Distinguished
Research Professor, 2004
Randy W. Kamphaus, Professor and Head of the Department of Educational
Psychology, studies children’s emotional and behavioral development.
His research has caused educators and psychologists to rethink
how they diagnose children’s academic, behavioral and emotional
development. He has developed a child behavior classification system
and co-developed a standard assessment tool for school psychologists
and education experts. The Behavior Assessment System for Children,
or BASC, evaluates behavior along a continuum of characteristics.
He has used this instrument to better classify children’s behavior
into seven distinct types of children’s behavioral adjustment in
school. Used in all 50 states and several foreign countries, BASC
has influenced the learning environment, particularly classroom
management and teacher-student interaction and enables teachers
to devise intervention programs based on individual needs. BASC
is being used to assess 5,000 children in a CDC-funded study of
middle school violence. Its publisher notes that BASC is among
the world’s most recommended child evaluation measures. He has
written or edited nine major texts, including Clinical Assessment
of Children’s Intelligence, the text of choice at leading universities
such as Stanford and the University of North Carolina. Since 1997,
his research has received more than $1.5 million from the U.S.
Department of Education.
Source: 25th Annual Research Awards Program (2004)
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