Robert L. Thorndike

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Robert Ladd Thorndike
Born(1910-09-22)September 22, 1910
DiedSeptember 21, 1990(1990-09-21) (aged 79)
ChildrenRobert M. Thorndike
ParentEdward Thorndike (father)
AwardsE. L. Thorndike Award (1971)
Academic background
EducationWesleyan University
Columbia University
Academic work
InstitutionsColumbia University

Robert Ladd Thorndike[1] (September 22, 1910 – September 21, 1990) was an American psychometrician and educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the analysis of reliability, the interpretation of error, cognitive ability, and the design and analysis of comparative surveys of achievement test performance of students in various countries.[2]

Education and career

Thorndike received his B.A. (Mathematics) from Wesleyan University in 1931, and his M.A. and Ph.D. (both in Psychology) from Columbia University in 1932 and 1935, respectively. He was a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1936 to 1976.[3] He was president of the American Educational Research Association and the Psychometric Society.

Like his father, Edward Thorndike, Thorndike conducted research in both animal and human psychology. With Irving Lorge, Thorndike published a standardized test in 1954 which later became, with the collaboration of Elizabeth Hagen, the widely used Cognitive Abilities Test.[2] He was one of the first to write about cluster analysis.[4] He received the E. L. Thorndike Award, which was named after his father, in 1971.

Death

Thorndike died of heart failure in September 1990 at the age of 79.[2]

References

  1. ^ Sheehy, Noel; Chapman, Antony J.; Conroy, Wendy A. (2002). Biographical Dictionary of Psychology. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415285612. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
  2. ^ a b c Cronbach, Lee J. (1992). "Robert L. Thorndike (1910–1990): Obituary". American Psychologist. 47 (10): 1237–1237. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.47.10.1237.
  3. ^ Thorndike, R. L. (1950). "Individual Differences". Annual Review of Psychology. 1: 87–104. doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.01.020150.000511. PMID 14771868.
  4. ^ Thorndike Robert L (1953). "Who belongs in the family?". Psychometrika. 18 (4): 267–276. doi:10.1007/BF02289263. S2CID 120467216.

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Educational offices
Preceded by President of the

American Educational Research Association
1974-1975

Succeeded by
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