Peter White is from Nova Scotia, Canada and moved from Halifax to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada in 1991. He has been employed with the Yukon Territory Government's Department of Education, Student Support Services Branch as an Educational Psychologist since that time. Peter has 28 years of experience as an Educational Psychologist.
Peter completed a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Philosophy (Logic and Semantics) at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Bachelor of Education degree at Acadia University in Wolfville, and Master of Arts degree in Educational Psychology and Measurement at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Prior to relocating to Whitehorse, Peter worked as an Educational Psychologist in various locations in Canada. Recently, Peter worked in Singapore as an Educational Psychologist conducting assessments and presenting teacher in-services at international schools. He also assisted in the delivery of post-tsunami, trainer-of-trainer workshops for Community-level Workers in Male, Republic of Maldives. Peter is a certified school psychologist with the British Columbia Association of School Psychologists.
Peter has a keen interest in test construction, research design, and program evaluation. While working at the Nova Scotia Hospital, he designed and developed the White-Woods Performance Checklist, and accompanying training video. This instrument was designed to evaluate one and two-person Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation procedures. In addition, he developed, in consultation with the hospital programmer, a computer-based Patient Tracking System used by one of the hospital units. Peter also developed a number of Checklists for research purposes at the hospital. Peter has worked as a trainer and consultant for the Federal Government of Canada and designed various Performance Appraisal Instruments (BOS & BARS) to evaluate field training competence at both the individual and group level.