Howard M. Knoff
About
Howard M. Knoff is a psychologist whose work centers on school reform, child mental health, and educational policy, with a particular focus on at-risk and underachieving students. He served as Director of the Institute for School Reform, Integrated Services, and Child Mental Health and Educational Policy, and is associated with Project ACHIEVE, a school reform initiative designed to address the needs of students who are at risk academically or behaviorally. Project ACHIEVE has been cited in Congressional Research Service materials on school-based mental health.
His peer-reviewed publications, appearing in journals such as Exceptional Children, Psychological Reports, Perceptual and Motor Skills, and Adolescence, address topics including curriculum-based measurement bias in reading assessment, personality assessment in learning-disabled adolescents, and special education placement decisions. Additional work examined the academic and psychological profiles of gifted children and adolescents with learning disabilities in secondary school settings.
Publications
- Curriculum-based measurement of at-risk students' reading skills: a preliminary investigation of bias.
- Investigating the relationship between the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory and the Personality Inventory for Children with a sample of learning disabled adolescents.
- Gifted children and Visual Aural Digit Span test performance.
- Perinatal mortality in a Swedish county 1973-1978. Time trends revealed by perinatal audit.
- Placement decisions revisited: IQ doesn't always tip the scale.
- Learning disabilities in the junior high school: creating the six-hour emotionally disturbed adolescent?
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