Alexander Beaujean, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Director, Baylor Psychometric Laboratory

Campus Contact Information:
Baylor University
School of Education
Draper 102-A
Department of Educational Psychology
One Bear Place #97301
Waco, TX 76798-7301
Campus Phone: (254) 710-1548
Fax: (254) 710-3265
email: Alex_Beaujean@baylor.edu

Education:
Post-Doctoral Clinical Work, Baylor University Psychology Clinic (Waco, TX).
Pre-Doctoral Internship. (2006). Applewood Centers, Inc./Case Western Reserve University (APA-Accredited). (Cleveland, OH).
Ph.D. (2006). School Psychology (APA-Accredited). University of Missouri
Ph.D. (2005). Educational Psychology (Statistics & Measurement). University of Missouri
M.A. (2004). Educational Psychology (Statistics & Measurement). University of Missouri
Graduate Minor (2004). Statistics
M.A. (2003). School Psychology. University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A. (1999). Psychology & History (high honors). Secondary Education specialization. Cedarville University

Professional Licensure and Certification:
2007-present, Licensed Psychologist (Texas)
2006-2008, Licensed Specialist in School Psychology (Texas)
1999-2003, Provisional Teaching License, grades: 7-12 (Ohio). Area: History

Research Interests:
Psychometrics
Latent Variable Modeling/Item Response Theory
Structure and Measurement of Human Cognitive Abilities
Cognitive Epidemiology
History of Psychology (with special interest in the London School of Differential Psychology)

Courses Taughts:
Assessment of Intelligence and Academics II Psychoeducational Evaluation (Graduate)
Assessment of Intelligence and Academics I: Cognitive Evaluation (Graduate)
Psychometric Theory & Test Construction (Graduate)
Applied Multiple Regression/Correlational Analysis in Education (Graduate)
Experimental Design 1: ANOVA Models (Graduate)
Statistical Methods (Graduate)
Measurement & Evaluation (Graduate)

Awards:
2008, Non-tenured (Tenure-track) Research Award (nominee), Baylor University
2007, Excellence in Research Award, MENSA Education & Research Foundation
2006, 2nd place, Outstanding Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association, Division 16.
2005, 2nd place, student poster competition, Missouri Psychological Association.
2004, Superior Graduate Student Award, Educational, School, & Counseling Psychology Department, University of Missouri-Columbia.
2004, Distinguished Masters Thesis of the Year (nominee), University of Missouri-Columbia.
2003, Inductee, Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society)
2003, 1st place, student poster competition, Missouri Psychological Association

Service:
Journal Reviewer:
School Psychology Quarterly (2001-2005)
Educational Researcher (2004 -2006)
Mental Health, Religion & Culture (2007)
Personality and Individual Differences (2005 -)
Organizational Research Methods (2007-)
Educational and Psychological Measurement (2007 -)

Conference Reviewer:
American Psychological Association (Divisions 5 & 16) (2006- )
American Education Research Association (Division D) (2006- )
International Society for Intelligence Research (2008- )

Learned Societies:
American Psychological Association, Division 16 (School Psychology)
American Psychological Association, Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics)
Association for Psychological Science
Galton Institute
International Society for Intelligence Research
International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
Psychometric Society
Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society

Selected Scholarship/Presentations:

Over 40 peer-reviewed presentations, 2008 and beyond listed below:

Beaujean, A. A., McGlaughlin, S. M., & Margulies, A. (2008, August). Validity of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales for referred students. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Firmin, M., McGlaughlin, S. M., Beaujean, A. A., Margulies, A., Cole, A., Davis, K., Firmin, R. & Michonski, J. (2008, August). Predictive ability of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales index scores. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Beaujean, A. A. & Sheng, Y. (accepted). Examining the Flynn Effect in the General Social Survey via latent variable modeling. In J. te Nijenhuis (Chairs). Recent advances in research on the Flynn Effect. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research, Decatur, GA.

Young, J. K. & Beaujean, A. A. (accepted). Individual differences as predictors of accidents in early adulthood. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research, Decatur, GA.

Reynolds, M. R. & Beaujean, A. A. (accepted). An investigation of Spearman’s Law of Diminishing Returns using the WAIS-III/WMS-III norming data. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research, Decatur, GA.

Peer-reviewed articles:

Beaujean, A. A., Jospeh, M.*, Youngstrom, E. A. & Carlson, G. (submitted). The structure of cognitive abilities in youth with manic symptoms: A factorial invariance study.

Beaujean, A. A., Firmin, M. W., Davis, K. D.* & Johnson, C. B.* (submitted) Sex Differences in Self-Administered Tests of Cognitive Ability.

Beaujean, A. A., Firmin, M. W., Michonski, J. D.,* Berry, T. P.,* & Johnson, C.* (resubmitted). A multitrait-multimethod investigation of the of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales in a collegiate sample.

Beaujean, A. A., Firmin, M., McGlaughlin, S. M., Margulies, A., Cole, A.*, Davis, K.*, Firmin, R. & Michonski, J.* (submitted). Predictive ability of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales index score.

Beaujean, A. A., Knoop, A., Frisby, C. L., Crouch, C.* & Holliday, G., (resubmitted). Forward and backward digit and spatial span tasks.

Beaujean, A. A., McGlaughlin, S. M., & Margulies, A. S. (submitted). Factorial Validity of the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales for referred students.

Beaujean, A. A. & McGlaughlin, S. M., Shiu, W.*, & Margulies, A. S. (submitted). Using special education data to investigate the Flynn Effect: More evidence that IQs are no longer increasing.

Ivey, J. & Beaujean, A. A. (resubmitted) Suicide knowledge in school psychology graduate students.

Beaujean, A. A., & Osterlind, S. J. (2008). Using Item Response Theory to Assess the Flynn Effect. Intelligence, 36, 455-463. (Impact Factor: 2.99)

Beaujean, A. A. (2008). Mediation, moderation, and the study of individual differences. In J. W. Osborne (Ed.). Best practices in quantitative methods (pp. 422-442). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Beaujean, A. A., Firmin, M. W., Knoop, A., Michonski, J. D.,* Berry, T. P.,* & Lowrie, R. E. (2006). Validation of the Frey and Detterman (2004) IQ prediction equations using the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales. Personality & Individual Differences, 41, 353-357. (Impact Factor: 1.40)

Beaujean, A. A., Knoop. A., & Holliday, G. (2006). Does chronometry have a place in assessing math disorders? Learning Disability Quarterly, 29, 32-38. (Impact Factor: .37)

Beaujean, A. A., & Guiling, S. F. (2006). The Lynn-Flynn Effect and school psychology: A call for research, The School Psychologist, 60, 17-20. (Impact Factor: n/a)

Beaujean, A. A. (2005) Heritability of Mental Processing Speed As Measured By Mental Chronometric Tasks: a Review and Meta-analysis, Intelligence, 33, 187-201. (Impact Factor: 2.99)

Beaujean, A. A. (2005) g, Jensen, and the Science of Mental Ability [Review of the Book "The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen"]. School Psychology Quarterly, 20, 106-114. (Impact Factor: .49)

Bickel, W., & Beaujean, A. A. (2005) Effective schools for all: A brief history and some common findings. In C. Reynolds & C. Frisby (Eds.), Comprehensive handbook of multicultural school psychology (pp. 303-328). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Beaujean, A. A. (2004). Galton redux. [Review of the Book "Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds"]. The School Psychologist, 58, 138-140. (Impact Factor: n/a) (pdf)

Beaujean, A. A. (2004) [Review of the Book “Intelligence, race and genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen”]. Intelligence, 30, 93-94. (Impact Factor: 2.99)

Beaujean, A. A. (2003, July). Modeling diversity: Applications of multilevel analysis to school psychology research. SASP News, 3(4), 13-22. (Impact Factor: n/a) (pdf http://homepages.baylor.edu/psychometric_lab/files/2008/10/multilevelsasp.pdf)

Beaujean, A. A., (2002, July). SASP Interviews: Arthur R. Jensen [Interview with Arthur R. Jensen]. SASP News, 2 (4), 8-19. (Impact Factor: n/a) (pdf http://homepages.baylor.edu/psychometric_lab/files/2008/10/sasp_jensen.pdf)

* = student co-author