She previously served as Deputy Provost at New York University and Professor of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at NYU.
[5] Her APA biography states that "[h]er clearest memories from childhood are of home, school, and the city as emotionally supportive and intellectually vibrant places to be.
[7] In her dissertation supervised by Bonnie Leadbeater, Raver examined interactions between low-income 2-year-olds and their mothers, demonstrating that turn-taking and joint attention predicted self-regulatory behaviors.
[12] As part of the project, Head Start teachers underwent training in supportive classroom management techniques and received weekly coaching from mental health consultants.
[20] Raver and her colleagues developed the Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA), a research tool designed to measure emotional, attentional, and behavioral regulation in 3- and 4-year-old children.