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Christina Hamme Peterson, Psy.D., earned her doctorate at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University in 2002. She is an expert in program evaluation, needs assessment, organizational measurement, and return on investment indicators for programs and services in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, education, pharmaceutical, and licensure and certification. She has conducted standard-setting projects on behalf of ACT, Inc. to set assessment standards at both the state and federal levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the State of Illinois' Prairie State Achievement Examination, and the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity Assessment Program. She has completed projects for a variety of for-profit and non-profit agencies, including John Deere Manufacturing, Association of Social Work Boards, University of Iowa College of Education, Northeast Indiana Workforce Investment Board, Gulf Coast Shipbuilding Partnership, and Teledyne Brown Engineering.   She has developed a measure to assess the emotional intelligence of groups and her work has been published in peer-review journals such as the Journal of Black Studies, Personality and Individual Differences, and the Journal of Educational Psychology. She has also served as an adjunct professor of psychology and organizational development courses at Rutgers and Monmouth Universities.