Faculty Profile

		Tomoe Kanaya, Ph.D. Assistant Professor E-mail: tkanaya@cmc.edu Phone: (909) 607-0719 Campus Address: Seaman Hall 227 Departments: Psychology
		Leave/Sabbatical Spring (on leave or sabbatical for Spring term)

Educational Background

Ph.D. Cornell University (Developmental Psychology)
M.A. Cornell University (Developmental Psychology)
A.B. Bryn Mawr College (English & Psychology)

Teaching Interests

• Developmental Psychology
• Introduction to Psychology
• Research Methods & Statistics
• Children and Educational Policy

Research Interests

• IQ testing in special education diagnoses
• Children's memory and suggestibility development
• Educational and legal policy oriented research
• Longitudinal methodology

Selected Professional Activities

• American Education Research Association
• American Psychological Association
• Society for Research on Child Development

Selected Research and Publications

• *denotes undergraduate author
• Kanaya, T., *MacFarlane, J.R. & *Avera, L.M. (2009). What's in a name? The inconsistencies of special education diagnoses and labels. In O. Demir and C. Celik (Eds) Multimedia in Education and Special Education. NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 185-201.
• *MacFarlane, J.R. & Kanaya, T. (2009). What does it mean to be Autistic? Inter-state variation in special education criteria for Autism services. Journal of Child and Family Studies 18, 662-669.
• Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J. (2007). Are all IQ scores created equal? The differential costs of IQ cut-off scores for at-risk children. Child Development Perspectives, 1, 52-56.
• Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J. (2007). MR diagnosis and the Flynn effect: General intelligence, adaptive behavior, and context. Child Development Perspectives, 1, 62-63.
• Kanaya, T. (2006). Testing school children: What happens when all the children ARE above average? In J.R. Marrow (Ed.), Focus on Child Psychology Research, 105-117. NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
• Principe, G.F., Kanaya, T., Ceci, S.J., & *Singh, M. (2006). Believing is seeing: How rumors can engender false memories in preschoolers. Psychological Science, 17, 243-248.
• Kanaya, T., Ceci, S.J., & Scullin, M.H. (2005). Age differences in secular IQ trends: An individual growth modeling approach. Intelligence, 33, 613-621.
• Kanaya, T., Light, D., & Culp, K.M. (2005) Factors influencing outcomes from a technology-focused professional development program. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 37, 313-329.
• Kanaya, T., Ceci, S.J. & Scullin, M.H. (2003). The rise and fall of IQ in special ed: Historical trends and their implications. Journal of School Psychology, 41, 453-465.
• Kanaya, T., Scullin, M.H. & Ceci, S.J. (2003). The Flynn effect and U.S. policies: The impact of rising IQ scores on American society via Mental Retardation diagnoses. American Psychologist, 58, 1-13.
• Silk, J.S., Morris, A.S., Kanaya, T. & Steinberg, L.D. (2003). Psychological control and autonomy granting: Opposite ends of a continuum or distinct constructs? Journal of Research on Adolescence, 13, 113-128.
• Scullin, M.H., Kanaya, T. & Ceci, S.J. (2002). Assessing suggestibility across multiple dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 8, 233-246.

Selected Awards

• John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation: Faculty Fellowship, 2010-2011 (PI)
• American Education Research Association: Division G Social Context of Education Research Fellow, 2006-2011
• Spencer Foundation: 2 Year Research Grant, 2007-2008 (PI: Grant # 2007-00115)