Abigail M. Harris

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Abigail M. Harris
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Michigan State University
University of California, Berkeley
OccupationPsychologist

Abigail M. Harris, is an associate professor at Fordham University's, Graduate School of Education. Her research has focused on educational issues in Africa and Latin America.

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Education

Harris received her Master's in Learning and Cognition at Michigan State University, and her Ph.D. in both Educational and School Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Research

Harris conducts research on school-based consultation and systemic educational reform. She is fluent in both English and Spanish and her work has been published in multiple countries and languages.

Harris has researched improving and assessing educational problems in several countries in Africa and Latin America. Her primary areas of research include school-based consultation and systemic educational reform. Her research in school-based consultation is targeted to school psychologists learning necessary skills and apply them through collaboration with teachers and administrators. The skills acquired by the school psychologist and the collaboration with teachers and administrators ensure that the needs of the student are met.

Harris's other area of research examined systemic educational reform in developing countries. She has worked on systemic educational reform inHonduras, El Salvador and Egypt. Primarily Harris's work in various nations has been to implement educational reform that helped the countries to conduct reform and further examine policies where the reform can be tenable. She has taken students along with her to different countries to further develop sustainable educational reform in schools. Her students have traveled to Ghana, El Salvador, and Honduras. Harris's multicultural approach to the field of School Psychology has helped bring it to the international level. Her other areas of research include, Self-Worth and School Learning, and Systemic Reform in International Contexts.

Selected publications

Harris has taken the skills from school psychology and used it as a guide to assist in educational reform. Some of her most notable publications have included: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Teaching and administrative roles

Harris teaches several graduate-level courses at Fordham University including, Consultation with Families, Consultation Practicum in Bilingual School Psychology, Consultation Practicum in School Psychology, Instructional Consultation, Issues in Non-biased Assessment, Fundamentals of Educational and Psychological Measurement, and Theories of School-based Consultation. [6]

She has also been involved in the administration of Fordham's School Psychology program, and is a director of the school psychology program at Fordham University. [7]

Fellowships

Harris was named a fellow of the American Psychological Association (International) in 2012. [8]

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  2. ↑ "Impact of New Horizons for Primary Schools on Literacy and Numeracy in Jamaica, 1999-2004" (PDF). Oecd.org. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "PsycNET". Psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Abigail Harris - Fordham University, NY - School Psychology". ResearchGate. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Improving Educational Quality Project: What Happens to the Textbooks?" (PDF). Pdf.usaid.gov. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Kelly, Milnes. "Abigail Harris". Fordham.edu. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
  7. ↑ Lockheed, Marlaine E.; Harris, Abigail M. (2005). "Beneath Education Production Functions: The Case of Primary Education in Jamaica". Peabody Journal of Education. 80: 6–28. doi:10.1207/S15327930pje8001_2. S2CID   144873879.
  8. ↑ "New APA fellows". Apa.org. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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