Cybele Raver | |
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Provost of Vanderbilt University | |
Assumed office July 1, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Susan Wente |
Personal details | |
Born | Cassandra Cybele Raver |
Education | Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MA,PhD) |
Cassandra Cybele Raver is an American developmental psychologist currently serving as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Vanderbilt University. She previously served as Deputy Provost at New York University and Professor of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture,Education,and Human Development at NYU.
Her work has explored the relationship between self-regulation and school readiness in young children,particularly those growing up in poverty. [1] [2] Raver,the 2012 recipient of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training,was described by the APA as "[o]ne of the most highly respected scholars and investigators in developmental science." [3] She is a member of the National Academy of Education. [4]
Raver,a native of New York City,graduated cum laude from Phillips Academy in 1982. [5] Her APA biography states that "[h]er clearest memories from childhood are of home,school,and the city as emotionally supportive and intellectually vibrant places to be." [6] Raver received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1986 and attended graduate school at Yale University,where she obtained her Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1994. [7] In her dissertation supervised by Bonnie Leadbeater,Raver examined interactions between low-income 2-year-olds and their mothers,demonstrating that turn-taking and joint attention predicted self-regulatory behaviors. [8] Raver worked at Cornell University,University of Chicago,and New York University before accepting a position at Vanderbilt in 2021. [7] She is the sister of actress Kim Raver.
Raver is married to Clancy Blair,a developmental psychologist at NYU and the principal investigator at NYU's Neuroscience and Education Lab. [9] She has been the recipient of funding from the MacArthur,Spencer,and William T. Grant Foundations,the National Science Foundation,and the National Institutes of Health,specifically the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health &Human Development. [10] [11] [6]
Raver designed and implemented the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP),a federally-funded intervention launched in 2003 to improve social-emotional well-being in low-income children enrolled in Head Start programs in Chicago. [12] As part of the project,Head Start teachers underwent training in supportive classroom management techniques and received weekly coaching from mental health consultants. [13] Raver and her team demonstrated that children in classrooms receiving the support showed improvements in attention and executive function. [14] In addition,teachers reported fewer behavioral problems in children who received the intervention. [15] Researchers have continued to follow the children enrolled in the project over time,and Raver and her colleagues have demonstrated that the supports had a lasting impact;children in the intervention classrooms went on to attend higher-quality high schools than those in the control condition and continued to perform better academically and on measures of executive function years later. [16] Raver's work on the CSRP was described by journalist Paul Tough in his 2016 book Helping Children Succeed. [17]
In another study,Raver collaborated with Clancy Blair to analyze data collected as part of the Family Life Project,an effort to examine the impact of early life stressors on the development of 1,292 children born in low-income counties in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. [18] Raver and Blair demonstrated that exposure to poverty in the first four years of life was predictive of lower scores on measures of executive function. [19] In an additional joint study on the impact of social-emotional factors on executive function,Raver and Blair determined that the implementation of a social-emotional learning curriculum in kindergarten classrooms led to improvements in executive function as well as lower levels of cortisol in children's saliva samples. [20]
Raver and her colleagues developed the Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA),a research tool designed to measure emotional,attentional,and behavioral regulation in 3- and 4-year-old children. [21] [22] The PSRA was used to assess self-regulation in young children who participated in the CSRP. [23] Raver was also part of a team of researchers at NYU who worked in collaboration with the NYC Department of Education's Division of Early Childhood Education (DOE-DECE) as it launched Pre-K for All,a citywide effort to provide free,high-quality early education experiences to all preschoolers in New York City. [24]
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