Nan Taylor
Ph.D. , Learning and Clinical Evalution, Bryn Mawr
M.A. Child Development and Early Childhood Education, Bryn Mawr
B.A., Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Office: Torrington Campus
Phone: (860) 626-6800
Fax: (860) 626-6847
Email:nan.taylor@uconn.edu
Areas of Specialty / Research Interest
Biological and cultural influences on development, individual differences, human relationships, and violence.
Courses Taught
Psyc 132 General Psychology I
Psyc 133 General Psychology II
Psyc 236 Developmental Psychology
Psyc 243 The Study of Personality
Psyc 245(W) Abnormal Psychology
Psyc 295 Seminar in Human Sexuality
Psyc 295 Seminar in Violence
Biography
Nan Taylor holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. While a graduate student she served on the faculty as an Assistant in the Phoebe Anna Thorne Laboratory Preschool where she was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship for two years. Her master’s thesis explored the use of alternative assessments in moral reasoning and her doctoral dissertation involved the use of a computerized evaluation of selective and sustained attention among preschoolers with developmental disabilities. Her academic work focused on both normal and developmentally delayed children in a variety of educational and clinical settings. Her postgraduate clinical year involved work with abused and neglected children, family violence, and the courts.
Professionally, Nan Taylor has worked as a school administrator, consultant to international educational groups in Wales and Japan, a group leader for the Advanced Placement Tests of the Educational Testing Service (College Board), and has provided data for test development with the Psychological Corporation and the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise (PACE) Center at Yale University. She has taught at the undergraduate level at University of Connecticut’s Torrington campus since 1989. At the graduate level, she has taught at Washington University and Pace University.
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