Faculty Vita: - School of Education, Indiana University

Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board

Faculty Vita

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Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 2000

Academic Degrees

Ph.D.	University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL	1999	Clinical Psychology: Specialization in Children and Families
M.S.	University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL	1995	Clinical Psychology: Specialization in Children and Families
B.A.	Spelman College, Atlanta, GA	1992	Psychology (magna cum laude)

Professional Experience

2000-Present	Assistant Professor, School Psychology Program, Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington
1998-2000	Post Doctoral Fellow, Juniper Gardens Children's Project, The University of Kansas
1997-1998	School Psychology Fellow, Harris County Department of Education, Houston, Texas
1996-1997	Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Intern, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
1995-1996	Project Coordinator, UJIMA Project, The Center for Family Studies, Miami, Florida
1995-1996	Principal Investigator, Parental Involvement and Activities Scale Project, Dissertation grant funded by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families & The Center for Family Studies, University of Miami.
1993-1994	Research Assistant, National Head Start/ Public School Early Childhood Transition Project, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
1992-1993	Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Faculty load

40% teaching & clinical supervision, 35% research, 25% administrative

Faculty Teaching

	P515	Child Development
	P591	Cognitive Assessment & Intervention
	P692	Seminar in Therapeutic Interventions with Children
	P695	Practicum in Personality and Behavioral Assessment
	P696	Practicum in Therapeutic Interventions with Children

Selected Publications

Gavin, K. & Greenfield, D. (1998). A comparison of levels of involvement for parents with at-risk African American kindergarten children in classrooms with high versus low teacher encouragement. Journal of Black Psychology, 24, 403-417.

Summers, J.A., Gavin, K., Purnell, T., & Nelson, J. (In Press). Family and School Partnerships: Building Bridges in General and Special Education. In F. Obiakor & C. Utley (Eds.), Psychology of Effective Education for Learners with Exceptionalities.

Funded Projects

Gavin, K. (July 2001 - June 2002). What do you want me to do? A qualitative study of African American parents' involvement in special education programming. Indiana University, School of Education, Proffitt Endowment Grant.

Gavin, K. (April 1995- January 1996). The Development of a Spectrum Analytic Measure of Parental Involvement. Funded by the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families/ The Center for Family Studies at University of Miami. Dissertation Grant.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

Member, American Educational Research Association, Family, School, and Community Partnerships SIG

Treasurer, Indianapolis Chapter Association of Black Psychologists

Member, International Network of Scholars

Conference Presentations

Gavin, K. (2001). The parent-child relationship. In K. Thornburg (Chair), From the cradle to the capitol. Symposium conducted at the Conference on the Impact of Welfare Reform on Infants, Toddlers, their Families, and Their Communities, Washington, D.C, April.

Gavin, K. (2000). Barriers to effective interventions: Successful practices and future directions. Council for Exceptional Children 2000 Symposium on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October. (Invited Presentation).

Gavin, K. & Greenfield, D. (2000). Parental Involvement and Activities Inventory: A Process-Oriented Measure of Parental Involvement. Head Start's Fifth National Research Conference, Washington, DC, June.

Gavin, K. & Greenfield, D. (1998). Teacher encouragement and parent involvement of African American parents of kindergarten children. Head Start's Fourth National Research Conference, Washington, DC, July

Research Areas

I teach graduate courses in Cognitive Assessment and Interventions for Children. In addition, I am a faculty supervisor in the IU Institute for Child Study clinic. My research focuses upon the relationships between families, schools, and communities.

Service/Outreach Projects

Associate Instructor Committee Member, Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology Committee Member, Lecture & Seminar Committee, School of Education, Indiana University

Invited Lecturer, Indiana University Upward Bound Program, October 2000

Participant, Family Research Consortium III, Summer Research Institute

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Accreditation Report 2002Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolisfor the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Educationand the Indiana Professional Standards Board