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After earning his degree in
School Psychology (Ph.D.) in 1979,
Dr. McCallum worked as a practicing
school psychologist in the public schools in Georgia, and then as a
university faculty member in Mississippi. Since 1986, he has been at the
University of Tennessee (UT), either as Co-Director or Director of the
APA- and NASP accredited School Psychology Program or Department Head. In
addition to his administrative duties, Dr. McCallum teaches assessment
courses (cognitive functioning/personality/achievement) and courses
focusing on learning and the diagnosis and treatment of childhood
psychopathology. Much of his research focuses on assessment and the
relationship between assessment and intervention; he is the author or
co-author of books, book chapters, articles, tests, and
national/international conference presentations. In 1998 he co-authored
the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) published by Riverside
Publishing Company, and in 2000 a software interpretive program for the
UNIT called UNIT Compuscore. UNIT is designed to provide a
psychometrically sound assessment of intelligence for children who do not
have English as a first language and for those who are deaf or hard of
hearing. In 2001 he co-authored Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment,
published by John Wiley & Sons, and recently edited Handbook of
Nonverbal Assessment, published by Kluwer Academic/Pleunum Publishers
(2003). He is co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Psychoeducational
Assessment. In addition to his administrative and classroom teaching
duties, he provides some supervision of school psychology students in
public schools settings and some direct services in a private practice
setting. For contributions to his profession Dr. McCallum was elected a
Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1992. In 2001 peers
selected him as the John Tunstall Outstanding Faculty Member Award winner
for the College of Education, University of Tennessee. Dr. McCallum earned
the BA in Psychology (1972) and MA in Experimental Psychology (1974) from
Georgia Southern University, and the Ph.D. in School Psychology from the
University of Georgia (1979). |
