General Program Information
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, APA 2020 convention has been converted to a fully virtual experience. Div. 5 presidential and invited addresses, symposia, and posters will be prerecorded and uploaded to the APA 2020 virtual platform. Sessions will be available “on-demand” for approximately one year.
Registration, and the APA 2020 program book (PDF), will be available on the APA 2020 convention website. The APA Convention Office has released the following information about participation and costs:
During the convention, all division sessions, posters, and collaborative programs entered into the APA platform will be available to convention registrants beginning at 12 noon eastern on Thursday, August 6. The official dates of APA 2020 virtual are Thursday, August 6, through Saturday, August 8. Registrants will have access to these presentations, including main stage and keynotes, until August 1, 2021.
All participants will need to register and pay the appropriate fee in order to “attend” (access sessions) and participate in any virtual discussions at APA 2020 virtual.
- APA member, fellow, associate, APA community college teacher affiliate, APA international affiliate: $50 (originally $315)
- APA student affiliate, APAGS member, APA high school teacher affiliate: $15 (originally $100)
- Nonmember full-time student: $30 (originally $195)
- Nonmember of APA: $75 (originally $495)
Registration includes:
- Inspiring keynotes addressing societies most critical issues
- Collaborative, late-breaking scientific content
- Innovative posters
- Connections and community
Div. 5 Programming Highlights
Presidential Address
Licensure Testing: The Context for the Proposed Licensure Test for Psychologists
Speaker: Kurt F. Geisinger, PhD
Invited Address
State-of-the-Art Invited Address: Current Trends in Social and Emotional Learning Assessment
Speaker: Clark McKown, PhD
Symposia
Advanced Quantitative Methods for Addressing Complexities in Psychological Research
Speakers: Holmes Finch, PhD, Xintong Li, PhD, Matthew S. Fritz, PhD
Protecting Data Integrity for Studies Using Mechanical Turk
Speakers: Constance J. Dalenberg, PhD, Kenneth J. Thompson, MA, Ana Abu-Rus, MA
Questioning Qualitative Methods: Rethinking Accepted Practices
Speakers: Sue L. Motulsky, EdD, Heidi M. Levitt, PhD, Rivka Tuval-Mashiach, PhD
The Old Wine and New Wine: History, Innovation, and Dissemination of Psychological Assessment
Speakers: Kurt F. Geisinger, PhD, David P. MacKinnon, PhD, Eric A. Youngstrom, PhD
Posters
PDFs of Div. 5 posters will be available for viewing on the APA Virtual platform.
Other Events
Planning for the Div. 5 business meeting, assessment breakfast, and awards ceremony is underway. More information will be released on the Div. 5 website and listserv in the upcoming weeks.
Div. 5 Program Committee
Felix Thoemmes, 2019 Program Chair
Natalie Koziol, 2020 Program Chair
The program committee is grateful for the time and effort put forth by the following individuals, who reviewed the Div. 5 symposia and posters submitted for presentation at this year’s convention:
- Kirstie Bash
- Elizabeth Brisola
- April Burns
- Gary Canivez
- Michelle Castellanos
- Donna Chen
- Dongho (Tom) Choi
- Sakshi Chopra
- Jeffrey Cucina
- Ralph De Ayala
- Adolph Delgado
- Eda Ermagan-Caglar
- Howard Everson
- Anne Fairlie
- Hojjtollah Farahani
- Ilene Gast
- Gustavo Gonzalez-Cuevas
- Karolina Grotkowski
- Tim Guetterman
- Azher Hameed Qamar
- Thomas Hogan
- Feng Ji
- Neal Kingston
- Kejin Lee
- Hua Lin
- Patricia Lowe
- Jacob Marszalek
- Joseph Maxwell
- Christine McCauley Ohannessian
- Sara McClelland
- Ryan McGill
- Tabitha McKinley
- Ali Molaie
- Amanda Montoya
- Jayden Nord
- John Protzko
- Meihua Qian
- Ray Reichenberg
- Abdolvahab Samavi
- Sijing Shao
- Jana Sladkova
- Heather Smigowsk
- Fumio Someki
- Francis Staskon
- Sonya Sterba
- Jesus Tanguma
- Felix Thoemmes
- Susana Urbina
- Yixi Wang
- Nathan Weed
- Arne Weigold
- Ingrid Weigold
- Frank Worrell
- HyeonJin Yoon
- Shuqi Zhou