R. Steve McCallum, Ph.D., is Professor of School Psychology in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at the University of Tennessee. Before coming to the University, Dr. McCallum worked for 4 years as a practicing school psychologist. During his 28 years at the University, Dr. McCallum served both as Program Coordinator for the School Psychology Program (3 years) and Department Head (22 years). He contributes to the assessment field as an author or co-author of numerous scholarly works, including books, book chapters, journal articles, tests, and national and international conference presentations (e.g., Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT), published by Riverside Publishing Company; a software interpretive program for the UNIT called UNIT Compuscore; Essentials of Nonverbal Assessment, published by John Wiley & Sons; the Handbook of Nonverbal Assessment, published by Kluwer Academic; Plenum Publishers; the Handbook of Reading Assessment, published by Allyn & Bacon/Pearson; the Universal Multidimensional Abilities Scales (UMAS), published by PRO ED). Finally, he is co-founder and contributing editor of the Journal of Psychoeducatonal Assessment. For his contributions to the profession, Dr. McCallum was elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1992.
