Psychology Wiki
Register
No edit summary
 
No edit summary
 
(6 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
  +
{{AssessPsy}}
{{otherpeople|Robert Thorndike}}
 
'''Robert L. Thorndike''' ([[1910]]-[[1990]]) was a [[psychometrician]] and [[educational psychology|educational psychologist]] who made significant contributions to cognitive ability testing. Like his father, [[Edward Thorndike]], he 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 Ability Test]].
+
'''Robert L. Thorndike''' (1910–1990) was a [[psychometrician]] and [[educational psychology|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.<ref>http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/rthorndike.shtml Robert Thorndike biography</ref> Like his father, [[Edward Thorndike]], he 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]].
  +
  +
He was one of the first to write about [[cluster analysis]].<ref>{{Cite journal
 
| author = Robert L. Thorndike
  +
| title = Who Belongs in the Family?
  +
| journal = [[Psychometrika]]
  +
| volume = 18
  +
| issue = 4
  +
| month = December
  +
| year = 1953
  +
}}</ref><ref>http://www.springerlink.com/content/30hl22782241380p/</ref>
  +
  +
Thorndike was a professor at [[Teachers College]], [[Columbia University]] from 1936 to 1976.<ref>https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146%2Fannurev.ps.01.020150.000511</ref> He 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 president of the [[American Educational Research Association]] and the [[Psychometric Society]].
  +
  +
==References==
  +
{{Reflist}}
   
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
  +
=== Further reading ===
* [http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/rthorndike.shtml Robert Thorndike biography]
 
  +
* {{Cite journal
  +
| author = [[Lee J. Cronbach]]
  +
| title = Robert L. Thorndike (1910-1990): Obituary
  +
| journal = [[American Psychologist]]
  +
| volume = 47
  +
| issue = 10
  +
| month = October
  +
| year = 1992
  +
| pages = 1237
  +
| doi = 10.1037/0003-066X.47.10.1237
  +
}}
  +
* {{Cite web
  +
| author = Aaron Adams
  +
| title = Robert Ladd Thorndike (1925)
  +
| url = http://www.kdp.org/about/laureates/laureates/robertthorndike.php
  +
| publisher = [[Kappa Delta Pi]]
  +
}}
   
{{start box}}
+
{{S-start}}
  +
{{S-edu}}
{{succession box|
+
{{Succession box|
 
before=[[Patrick Suppes]]|
 
before=[[Patrick Suppes]]|
 
title=President of the
 
title=President of the
Line 13: Line 46:
 
after=[[Gene V. Glass]]
 
after=[[Gene V. Glass]]
 
}}
 
}}
{{end box}}
+
{{S-end}}
   
  +
{{Authority control|VIAF=110528759}}
  +
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
  +
| NAME = Thorndike, Robert L.
  +
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
  +
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American psychologist
  +
| DATE OF BIRTH = 1910
  +
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
  +
| DATE OF DEATH = 1990
  +
| PLACE OF DEATH =
  +
}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thorndike, Robert L.}}
 
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thorndike, Robert L.}}
 
[[Category:Educational psychologists]]
 
[[Category:Educational psychologists]]
 
[[Category:1910 births]]
 
[[Category:1910 births]]
 
[[Category:1990 deaths]]
 
[[Category:1990 deaths]]
  +
[[Category:Wesleyan University alumni]]
 
  +
[[Category:Columbia University alumni]]
:sk:Robert Thorndike
 
  +
[[Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association]]
   
 
{{enWP|Robert L. Thorndike}}
 
{{enWP|Robert L. Thorndike}}

Latest revision as of 18:26, 17 July 2013

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Individual differences | Personality | Philosophy | Social |
Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology |

Social Processes: Methodology · Types of test


Robert L. Thorndike (1910–1990) was a 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.[1] Like his father, Edward Thorndike, he 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.

He was one of the first to write about cluster analysis.[2][3]

Thorndike was a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1936 to 1976.[4] He 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 president of the American Educational Research Association and the Psychometric Society.

References

External links

Further reading

Template:S-start Template:S-edu |- style="text-align: center;" |- style="text-align: center;" |width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1"|Preceded by:
Patrick Suppes |width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1"|President of the American Educational Research Association
1974-1975
|width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1"|Succeeded by:
Gene V. Glass |- Template:S-end


This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors).