User:Oughtta Be Otters/sandbox/A Nayena Blankson

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Dr. A. Nayena Blankson is a Full Professor at Spelman College. She received her Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Southern California, where she was mentored by Dr. John L. Horn, as well as Dr. Rand Wilcox. After her Ph.D., Dr. Blankson was a Post-doctoral Fellow at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was mentored by Dr. Marion O’Brien.

Dr. Blankson’s research interests straddle both quantitative and developmental psychology. Her developmental research interests include the organization and development of cognitive abilities as it relates to personality, parenting, schooling, and early academic achievement. Her quantitative interests include psychometrics, multivariate methods, moderated mediation, the design of psychological research, and structural equation modeling.

Dr. Blankson is the director of the Cognition and Temperament (CAT) Lab at Spelman (Research funded by NIH R15HD077511 and NSF Award #1832090); She is the Director of the INSPIRE U2 summer REU site (NSF Award #1852056); and she is Program Director of the Spelman RISE Program (NIH R25GM060566).

https://www.spelman.edu/academics/faculty/highlights/faculty-highlights/2015/07/28/nayena-blankson

Nayena Blankson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, is conducting research funded through a 2014 Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Blankson’s research program focuses on how school-entry cognitive processes, examined within the context of classroom quality and student-teacher relationships, may serve as determinants of early reading and math achievement among an economically diverse sample of African American children in elementary school.

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Araba Nayena Blankson MA ’03, PhD ’07 (LAS) was promoted to full professor at Spelman College.

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Dr. Blankson is a Professor of Psychology at Spelman College. Dr. Blankson graduate summa cum laude with a B.A. in psychology and minor in mathematical sciences from Loyola College in Maryland. She earned her Ph.D. in quantitative psychology from the University of Southern California where she worked with the late Dr. John L. Horn, as well as Dr. Rand Wilcox. Dr. Blankson served for two years as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Family Research Center at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her substantive research interests include the organization and development of cognitive abilities as it relates to personality, parenting, and schooling. Her quantitative interests include measurement invariance and structural equation modeling.

https://education.umd.edu/news/07-07-20-quantitude-podcast-episode-enhancing-diversity-quantitative-sciences

Week six of Quanti•Qamp welcomes special guest Dr. A. Nayena Blankson, a Professor of Psychology at Spelman College who is a leading national voice in diversity and equity in academia. Nayena talks with Patrick and Greg about how we can capitalize on the current national conversation about race and equity to enhance diversity in both academia in general and in the quantitative sciences in particular.

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The atlanta beltline and african-american women's health among topics explored during research day 2018. (2018, Apr 19). Targeted News Service Retrieved from http://ezproxy.castilleja.org/newspapers/atlanta-beltline-african-american-womens-health/docview/2027586747/se-2?accountid=601

Research Day is co-chaired by A. Nayena Blankson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, and Marionette Holmes, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Economics and associate professor of economics.

Education department awards spelman college $2.7 million in first in the world grant. (2015, Sep 22). Targeted News Service Retrieved from http://ezproxy.castilleja.org/newspapers/education-department-awards-spelman-college-2-7/docview/1716792425/se-2?accountid=601

The U.S. Department of Education, in an effort to drive innovation and keep higher education within reach for all Americans, awarded Spelman College $2.7 million as part of its First in the World (FITW) grant program. Spelman was among 17 colleges and universities to receive nearly $60 million in funding.

The College will use the funds to incorporate new teaching and learning strategies into its curriculum and student experience. It will also train faculty and peer tutors on "metacognitive learning," which can lead to an increasing "growth mindset" and other positive student outcomes.

The grant, which will be administered beginning in fall 2015, will allow Spelman faculty and staff to deepen their commitment of educating the whole woman by implementing metacognitive practices. This "thinking about thinking" process strengthens the faculty-student engagement by employing techniques that guide students to a greater awareness of their own thinking and learning.

This self-awareness will lead to improvement in students' ability to monitor what they know and what they need to learn - habits that are critical towards earning a college degree, as well as being prepared to take on the world's most complex challenges as global change agents.

The program will be directed by Francesina Jackson, Ph.D., director of Spelman's Center for Academic Planning and Success and Jimmeka Guillory, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology. They are supported by experimental economist Angelino Viceisza, Ph.D., sociologist Bruce Wade, Ph.D., and quantitative psychologist A. Nayena Blankson, Ph.D., as well as an advisory committee of researchers and educators from around the country.