Brittney Williams, a PhD student in School Psychology, was awarded the Psychological Assessment Young Scholars Award at the 2017 American Psychological Association Convention. Brittney attended the APA Convention on August 3-6 in Washington D.C., where she was chosen for the award from 100 candidates based on her presentation of a poster detailing the research she conducted with Linda Ruan, M.Ed and Laura Pendergast, Ph.D. The research investigates the factor structure of the Bayley Scales of Infant Toddler Development-Social Emotional subscale 3rd edition across 8 low-and middle-income sites.

  

The three-day event is the largest gathering of psychologists and psychology students in the world. Between 11,000-14,000 professionals from a variety of fields in psychology such as research, education, practice, and policy attend the APA Convention. Brittney is honored to present the research project that she took apart with Linda Ruan and Laura Pendergast.