Kevin S. McGrew - Program Author
Kevin S. McGrew is Director of the Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP), LLC, a private research and consulting organization he established in 1998. He was the Research Director of the Woodcock-Muñoz Foundation from 2005 to 2014. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in Educational Psychology (School Psychology Program) at the University of Minnesota and Director of Research for Interactive Metronome, a neurotechnology and rehabilitation company. Since 2014 he has been the intelligence theory and testing consultant to the Dharma Bermakna Foundation and the Universatas Gadjah Mada (UGM) for the development of the Indonesian AJT Cognitive Assessment Development Project. He holds a PhD in Educational Psychology (Special Education) from the University of Minnesota, and an MS in School Psychology and a BA in Psychology from Minnesota State University—Moorhead.
Dr. McGrew was a practicing school psychologist for 12 years in Iowa and Minnesota. As a school psychologist he provided assessment services from preschool through high school. From 1989 to 2000, he was a Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota. He has served as a measurement consultant to a number of psychological test publishers, national research studies, and organizations.
He has authored numerous publications and made state, national, and international presentations in his primary areas of research interest in human intelligence, intellectual assessment, personal competence, applied psychometrics, and the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities. He is an active distributor of theoretical and research information via three professional blogs and The MindHub® web portal.
Dr. McGrew was the primary measurement consultant for the WJ-R and served in the same capacity as coauthor of the Mini-Battery of Achievement (MBA), Sharpe-McNear-McGrew Braille Assessment Inventory (BAI), WJ III, Woodcock-Johnson Diagnostic Supplement to the Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz®(Bateria III), Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update (WJ III NU®), Woodcock-Johnson III—Australian Adaptation, and Woodcock-Johnson IV. He was also the psychometric and statistical consultant for the development of the Children’s Psychological Processes Scale.
Kevin S. McGrew - Author Video
ECAD®, WIIIP® (WJ IV Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Program™ and Woodcock Interpretation and Instructional Interventions Program™), WJ III™, WJ IV™, WJ-R®, Woodcock-Johnson®, Batería III Woodcock-Muñoz®, WJ III NU® (WJ III Normative Update), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt™, and HMH® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.