Katherine Picho-Kiroga, PhD.
Dr. Katherine Picho is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in the Department of Human Development and Psycho-Educational Studies at Howard University. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Connecticut and over a decade of experience in quantitative research methods and statistical analysis. Her areas of statistical expertise include psychometrics, structural equation modeling, causal inference, and big data techniques such as propensity score analysis, multi-level, growth/ longitudinal and mixture modeling.
Katherine spearheads research on Social Identity Threat in relation to women and people of color in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Within this line of research, Dr. Picho has conducted cross-cultural research examining stereotype threat in under-studied populations such as adolescents in non-Western cultural contexts. and intervention research to attenuate social identity threat.
Ever seeking to expand boundaries of stereotype threat research, under Dr. Picho’s leadership, RISE is expanding its intervention research to include analyses of physiological correlates of stereotype threat, and the use of biofeedback to counteract social identity threat at the physiological level where it matters the most.
Publications: Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Note. Asterisks denote collaboration with graduate student (advisee or protégé)
2025
- Lee-Holloway, S. C., Lucker, J. R., Picho-Kiroga, K., Wright-Harp, W., & Martinez, S. (2025). The Lee Assessment of Articulation and Phonology for African American Children Part 1: An Articulation and Phonology Assessment for African American English Speakers. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 10, p.616-639. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_PERSP-24-00235
- Lee-Holloway, S. C., Lucker, J. R., Picho-Kiroga, K., Wright-Harp, W., & Martinez, S. (2025). The Lee Assessment of Articulation and Phonology for African American Children Part 2: A comparison of typically developing children and children with a developing delay. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_PERSP-24-00234
2024
- Picho, K., Valencia-Serrano, M., & Hall*, J. T. (2024). Improving Judgements of Performance among Black engineering students highly susceptible to stereotype threat: An intervention. Advances in Engineering Education, 12(4) p14-41.
2023
- Picho, K., & Grimm, L. A. (2023). Examining the moderating role of regulatory fit on stereotype threat among Ugandan adolescents. Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0022452023.2186829
2022
- Picho, K., Osborne, E., Camacho, F., Ouellette, A., Woodford, M., Melcer, E. (2022). Resilient IN: Design of an Interactive Narrative HRV-Biofeedback Game to Develop Stereotype and Social Identity Threat Resilience.In: Söbke, H., Spangenberger, P., Müller, P., Göbel, S. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13476. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15325-9_8
- Lee*, S. C., Lucker, J. R., Picho-Kiroga, K., Wright-Harp, W., & Martinez, S. (2022). A Compilation of Speech Sound Features of African American English. Journal of the National Black Association for Speech Language and Hearing.
2021
- Quinlan, C., Picho, K. & Burke, J. (2021).Creating an instrument to measure social and cultural self-efficacy indicators for persistence of HBCU undergraduates in STEM. Research in Science Education.
- Picho-Kiroga,K., Turnbull, A. & Rodrigueze-Leahy, A. (2021). Stereotype threat and its problems: Theory misspecification in research, consequences, and remedies. Journal of Advanced Academics, 32(2), 231–264. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1932202X20986161
2020
- Picho, K., Rojas, C. T., & Caicedo, A. M. (2020).Exploring latent profiles of stereotype threat susceptibility in U.S. and Colombian students. Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology.
2018
- Picho, K., & Schmader, T. (2018).When do gender stereotypes impair math performance? A study of stereotype threat among Ugandan adolescents. Sex Roles, doi:10.10007/s11199-017-0780-9
2017
- Ratcliffe, T., McBee, E., Picho, K., Schuwirth, L., Leppink, J., Van Der Vleuten, C., & Durning, S. J. (2017). Exploring Implications of Context Specificity and Cognitive Load in Intermediates. Meded Publish. doi: https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2017.000048
- Torre, D., Daley, B., Picho, K. & Durning, S. (2017).Group Concept Mapping: An approach to explore group knowledge organization and collaborative learning in senior medical students. Medical Teacher, 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1342030
- Maggio, L., Artino, A., Picho, K., & Driessen, E. (2017). Are you sure you want to do that? Fostering the responsible conduct of medical education research. Academic Medicine. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001805
2016
- Torre, D., & Picho, K. (2016).Threats to internal and external validity in Health Professions Education Research.Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 91(12), e21. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001446
- Picho, K., Maggio, L., & Artino, A. R. (2016).Science: The slow march of accumulating evidence. Perspectives on Medical Education. doi: 10.1007/s40037-016-0305-1
- Picho, K., & Artino, A. R. (2016).7 deadly sins in educational research. Journal of Graduate Medical Education.http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-16-00332.1
- Picho, K. (2016).The psychosocial experience of high school females susceptible to stereotype threat. Journal of Educational Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2015.1010192
- Martin, K. S., Colantonio, A. G., Picho, K., Boyle, K. E. (2016)Self-Efficacy is associated with increased food security in novel food pantry. Journal of Social Science and Medicine-Population Health, 2, 62-67
2015
- McCoach, D. B., Newton, S. D., Siegle, D., Baslanti, U, & Picho, K. (2015).Is Having Low Motivation the Same as Not Having High Motivation? Comparing the CSAS-R and the SAAS-R. High Ability Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13598139.2015.1103209
- Picho, K., Gilliland, W., Artino, A. R., DeZee, K., McManigle, J. E, Dong, T., Cruess, D. F., & Durning, S. J. (2015).Assessing curriculum effectiveness: A survey of Uniformed Services University medical school graduates.Military Medicine 180(4), 113-128
- Durning, S.J., Dong, T., LaRochelle, J. L., Artino, A.R., Gilliland, W., DeZee, K. J., Saguil, A., Cruess, D. J., Picho, K., & McManigle, J. E. (2015). The Long-term career outcome study: Lessons learned and implications for educational practice. Military Medicine 180(4), 164-170)
- McBee, E., Ratcliffe, T., Goldszmidt, M., Schuwirth, L., Picho, K., Artino, A., Masel, J., & Durning, S. J. (2015).Clinical reasoning tasks and resident physicians: what do they reason about? Academic Medicine doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001024
- McBee, E., Ratcliffe, T., Picho, K., Schuwirth, L., Artino, A., Yepes-Rios, M., Masel, J., van der Vleuten, C., & Durning, S. J. (2015). Consequences of contextual factors on clinical reasoning in resident physicians.Advances in Health Sciences Education DOI i10.1007/s10459-015-9597-x
2013
- Picho, K., Rodriguez, A., & Finnie, L. (2013).Exploring the moderating role of context on the mathematics performance of females under stereotype threat: A meta-analysis. Journal of Social Psychology, 153(3), 299-333
- Coman, N. C., Picho, K., McArdle, J. J., Villagra, V., Dierker, L., & Iordarche, E. (2013).The paired t-test as a simple latent change score model. Frontiers in Quantitative Measurement and Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00738
- Hutchins-Wiese, H. L, Picho, K., Watkins, B. A., Yong, L., Tannenbaum, S., Claffey, K., & Kenny, A. M. (2013).High dose eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid supplementation reduces bone resorption in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors on aromatase inhibitors: a pilot study. Nutrition and Cancer, 1-9 doi: 10.1080/01635581.2014.847964
2012
- Picho, K., & Brown, S. W. (2012).Can stereotype threat be measured? A validation of the Social Identities and Attitudes Scale (SIAS). Journal of Advanced Academics, 22 (3), 374 – 411
- Picho, K. & Stephens, J. M. (2012).Culture, context and stereotype threat: A comparative analysis of young Ugandan women in single-sex and coed schools. Journal of Educational Research. 105, 52-63
- Picho, K., Katrichis, J. M., & McCoach, D. B. (2010). Developing and validating the Females in Mathematics Scale, FIMS.International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment, 5, 77-100
