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Nathalie Parent is a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Foundations and Practices in Education at the Faculty of Education, Université Laval. She is based in the Jeanne-Lapointe Building, Room 562 in Quebec City.
Her research spans two primary domains: psychometric assessment in education and psychology, and child resilience following traumatic experiences. In psychometrics, she focuses on intelligence testing, personality assessment, methodological biases, and cross-cultural equivalence of tests. Her work includes developing the French-Canadian version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV and validation studies of various behavioral assessment tools. In child psychology, she investigates protective and vulnerability factors related to resilience, particularly following sexual abuse and other traumatic events.
Her recent publications demonstrate consistent productivity in both research streams, with work appearing in journals such as Comprehensive Psychiatry and Child Maltreatment, as well as presentations at major conferences including the American Psychological Association and Canadian Psychological Association meetings.
As an educator, she teaches undergraduate courses in Psychometry and Use of Psychometric Tests, along with graduate Special Topics courses. She currently supervises three doctoral students and has mentored numerous master's students through their thesis work.
Her research has been supported by significant funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Quebec Research Fund on Society and Culture, school boards, and commercial test publishers. This funding has enabled her to conduct large-scale studies on child adaptation, sexual violence consequences, and psychometric validation across cultural contexts.
Dr. Parent maintains an active research laboratory with web presence at www.fse.ulaval.ca/ressources/testotheque/, where she shares resources related to psychological assessment and educational measurement.
