Dr. Barbara A. Schaefer
104 CEDAR Building
University Park, PA 16802
Title
Associate Professor of Education (Educational and School Psychology)Department
Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special EducationCenters
CEDAR ClinicPrograms
School PsychologyBiography
Dr. Schaefer is an Associate Professor of Education at Penn State and the Director of Training/Professor in Charge for the Graduate Program in School Psychology. Her research interests are in educational and behavioral assessment, learning behaviors, gender and cultural differences, and instrument development/scaling. She teaches graduate seminars on intellectual assessment and school-based interventions, as well as an multidisciplinary undergraduate honors course on child development from a global perspective. She is a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist who supervises in the CEDAR School Psychology Clinic which provides psychoeducational evaluations for children and youth with academic or behavioral difficulties. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment and the International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, and is a trainer for the National Association of School Psychologists' PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention workshops.
Areas of Expertise
Age Levels
Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education
Education Levels
Educational Studies
Individual Difference
Learning
Methodological Research
Social Issues
Teacher Preparation
Representative Publications
Hamlet, H. S., Schaefer, B. A., Herrick, M., & Rai, R. (2015). Approaches to learning among school-aged youth in Nepal: Factor structure of Learning Behaviors Scale scores. Research in Comparative & International Education, 10, 300-313. doi:10.1177/1745499915576175
Ortiz, A., Clinton, A., & Schaefer, B. A. (2015). Construct Validity Evidence for Bracken School Readiness Assessment, Third Edition Spanish Form Scores. Psychology in the Schools, 52, 208-221. doi:10.1002/pits.21816
The MAL-ED Network Investigators. (2014). The MAL-ED Study: A multinational and interdisciplinary approach to understand the relationship between enteric pathogens, malnutrition, gut physiology, physical growth, cognitive development, and immune responses in infants and children up to 2 years of age in resource-poor environments. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 59(S4): S193-S206. doi:10.1093/cid/ciu653
Pendergast, L. L., Scharf, R. J., Rasmussen, Z. A., Seidman, J. C., Schaefer, B. A., Svensen, E., Tofail, F., Koshy, B., Kosek, M., Rasheed, M. A., Roshan, R., Maphula, A., Shrestha, R., Murray-Kolb, L. M., & The MAL-ED Network Investigators. (2014). Postpartum depressive symptoms across time and place: Structural invariance of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire among women from seven international sites. Journal of Affective Disorders, 167, 178-186. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2014.05.039
Pendergast, L. L., Vandiver, B. J., Schaefer, B. A., Cole, P. M., Murray-Kolb, L. E., & Christian, P. (2014). Factor structure of scores from the Conners’ Rating Scales–Revised among Nepali children. International Journal of Educational and School Psychology, 4, 261-270. doi:10.1080/21683603.2013.878678
Bogue, E. L., DeThorne, L. S., & Schaefer, B. A. (2014). A psychometric analysis of childhood vocabulary tests. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 41, 55-69.
Shah, M., & Schaefer, B. A. (2013). Reliability of Bracken School Readiness Assessment, Third Edition scores with young children in Mumbai, India. International Journal of Educational and School Psychology, 1, 58-66. doi:10.1080/21683603.2013.782595.
Murray-Kolb, L. E., Khatry, S. K., Katz, J., Schaefer, B. A., Cole, P. M., LeClerq, S., Tielsch, J. M., & Christian, P. (2012). Preschool micronutrient supplementation effects on intellectual and motor function in school-age Nepalese children. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 166, 404-410.
Meyer, E. L., Schaefer, B. A., Soto, C. M., Simmons, C. S., Anguiano, R., Brett, J., . . . Worrell, F. C. (2011). Factor structure of Child Behavior Scale scores in Peruvian preschoolers. Psychology in the Schools, 48, 931-942. doi:10.1002/pits.20596
Christian, P., Morgan, M. E., Murray-Kolb, L., LeClerq, S. C., Khatry, S. K., Schaefer, B., Cole, P. M., Katz, J., & Tielsch, J. M. (2011). Preschool iron-folic acid and zinc supplementation in children exposed to iron-folic acid in utero confers no added cognitive benefit in early school-age. Journal of Nutrition, 141, 2042-2048. doi: 10.3945/jn.111.146480
Hamlet, H. S., Gregar, P., & Schaefer, B. A. (2011). Students living with chronic illness: The school counselor’s role. Professional School Counseling, 14, 202-210.
Christian, P., Murray-Kolb, L. E., Khatry, S. K., Katz, J., Schaefer, B. A., Cole, P. M., LeClerq, S. C., & Tielsch, J. M. (2010). Prenatal micronutrient supplementation and intellectual and motor function in early school-aged children in Nepal. Journal of the American Medical Association, 304, 2716-2723. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.1861