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= Jacqueline P. Leighton = Jacqueline Paulina Leighton (born July 10, 1971) is a Chilean-Canadian academic, psychologist and assessment specialist. She is professor of School and Clinical Child Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. After being a visiting scholar in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland, College Park and completing a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada (SSHRC) in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, she was hired by the University of Alberta in 2001. Leighton has served as editor-in-chief of Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice and on numerous other advisory boards, including the Journal of Educational Measurement.

Leighton holds a Bachelor of Arts (honors) in Psychology from the University of Alberta. She also holds a Masters of Educational Psychology

Among her research contributions to psychology and educational testing is