Susana Urbina is a Peruvian-American psychologist

Psychology

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. She received her Ph.D. in Psychometrics

Psychometrics

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 from Fordham University

Fordham University

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 in 1972 and was licensed in Florida

Florida

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 in 1976. She currently teaches at University of North Florida

University of North Florida

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, where her principal areas of teaching and research are psychological testing and assessment.

Urbina is a fellow of Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics) of the American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association

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 (APA) and of the Society for Personality Assessment. She has chaired the Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment and the Committee on Professional Practice and Standards of the APA. In 1995, Urbina was part of an 11-member APA task force led by Ulric Neisser

Ulric Neisser

Ulric Neisser is an American psychologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a faculty member at Cornell University. In 1995, he headed an American Psychological Association task force that reviewed The Bell Curve and related controversies in the study of intelligence. The task...

 which published "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns

Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns

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," a report written in response to The Bell Curve

The Bell Curve

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Publications

• Urbina S. Psychological Testing: Seventh Edition, Study Guide. Macmillan Pub Co; 6th edition (June 1, 1989) ISBN 0-02-303040-2
• Urbina S. Psychological Testing: Study Guide. Prentice Hall; 7th edition (September 1, 1997) ISBN 0-13-257321-0
• Urbina S. Essentials of Psychological Testing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (July 2004). ISBN B0002OUSLU

External links

• Susana Urbina website via University of North Florida