Robert L. Thorndike
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Robert L. Thorndike's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Ladd Thorndike 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.
Robert L. Thorndike's Published Works
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Published Works
- Who belongs in the family? (1953) (1147)
- An evaluation of the attempts to measure social intelligence. (1937) (440)
- CONCEPTS OF CULTURE-FAIRNESS (1971) (272)
- Personnel selection : test and measurement techniques (1951) (195)
- Reading as Reasoning. (1973) (166)
- Reading comprehension education in fifteen countries;: An empirical study (1973) (154)
- The role of general ability in prediction (1986) (146)
- Factor analysis of social and abstract intelligence. (1936) (135)
- Two screening tests of verbal intelligence. (1942) (119)
- Regression fallacies in the matched groups experiment (1942) (93)
- The Effect of Discussion upon the Correctness of Group Decisions, when the Factor of Majority Influence is Allowed For (1938) (91)
- Verbal Intelligence of the American Adult (1944) (90)
- Reviews: Rosenthal, Robert, and Jacobson, Lenore. Pygmalion in the Classroom. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 240 + xi pp. $3.95. (1968) (85)
- Measurement and evaluation in psychology and education, 5th ed. (1991) (84)
- Intellectual status and intellectual growth. (1966) (80)
- The Central Role of General Ability in Prediction. (1985) (80)
- Ten thousand careers (1960) (64)
- Stability of factor loadings (1987) (61)
- But You Have to Know How to Tell Time (1969) (61)
- The problem of classification of personnel (1950) (60)
- On what type of task will a group do well (1938) (56)
- The Effect of the Interval Between Test and Retest on the Constancy of the IQ (1933) (55)
- "Constancy" of the IQ. (1940) (52)
- RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND TECHNIQUES (1947) (50)
- Comments: But You Have to Know How to Tell Time1 (1969) (48)
- The Prediction of Vocational Success (1935) (45)
- Mr. Binet’s Test 70 Years Later1 (1975) (40)
- Speed of information processing and level of cognitive ability (1987) (25)
- Structure of intelligence. (1967) (25)
- Words and the Comics (1941) (25)
- An Evaluation of Aspects of the Activity Program in the New York City Public Elementary Schools (1939) (25)
- Causation of Binet IQ Decrements. (1977) (22)
- The structure of preferences for psychological activities among psychologists. (1955) (20)
- A Further Comparison of Pupils in “Activity” and “Non-Activity” Schools (1941) (20)
- Binet Item Difficulty Then and Now. (1976) (18)
- "Community variables as predictors of intelligence and academic achievement": Erratum. (1951) (18)
- The psychological value systems of psychologists. (1954) (16)
- Growth of intelligence during adolescence. (1948) (14)
- The prediction of intelligence at college entrance from earlier test. (1947) (11)
- The Effect of Head Start Training on the Cognitive Growth of Disadvantaged Children (1969) (11)
- CHARACTERISTICS OF MEN WHO REMAINED IN AND WHO LEFT TEACHING. (1960) (11)
- How children learn the principles and techniques of problem-solving. (1950) (10)
- Thorndike Dimensions of Temperament (1968) (10)
- Normative data obtained in the house-to-house administration of a psychosomatic inventory. (1952) (9)
- The Relation of School Achievement to Differences in the Backgrounds of Children. (1973) (9)
- Critical note on the Pressey Interest-Attitudes Test. (1938) (8)
- Differences in Reading Interests Related to Differences in Sex and Intelligence Level (1940) (7)
- THE HUMAN FACTOR IN ACCIDENTS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS : A REPORT TO THE SCHOOL OF AVIATION MEDICINE, U.S. AIR FORCE (1964) (7)
- An evaluation of the adult intellectual status of Terman's gifted children. (1948) (6)
- Normative test data for adult males obtained by house-to-house testing. (1955) (6)
- Performance of Gifted Children on Tests of Developmental Age (1940) (6)
- Retest changes in the IQ in certain superior schools. (1940) (5)
- Observations of Excursions in Activity and Control Schools (1941) (5)
- Tests as Research Instruments (1951) (5)
- Studies in genius. (1948) (5)
- Observations of the Behaviour of Children in Activity and Control Schools (1941) (5)
- Content and Evaluation in Ethnic Stereotypes (1977) (5)
- Motivation and Visual Factors. (1942) (4)
- The program for training specialists in psychological measurement at Teachers College, Columbia University. (1950) (4)
- Methodological Problems in Developing Instruments for Cross-National Studies. (1974) (3)
- Men Teachers and Ex-Teachers: Some Attitudes and Traits (1961) (3)
- The Biserial-Phi Correlation Coefficient (1988) (3)
- Development and Applications of Tests of Special Aptitudes (1956) (3)
- Bayesian Concepts and Test Making (1986) (3)
- Bayesian Concepts and Test Interpretation (1986) (3)
- A STUDY OF THE WORLD WAR II NAVY CAREERS OF ILLITERATES SENT THROUGH LITERACY TRAINING (1953) (3)
- The Role of Bayesian Concepts in Test Development and Test Interpretation (1986) (3)
- VALIDATION OF THE ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN SELECTION TEST AT SELECTED CLASS ' 'A' ' SCHOOLS (1955) (2)
- FREE CHOICE OPEN ENROLLMENT - JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. (1966) (2)
- Educational Decisions and Human Assessment (1964) (2)
- Measurement and evaluation in psychology and education / Robert L. Thorndike, Elizabeth P. Hagen (1977) (2)
- Note on "I.Q. changes in foster home children" by Emmett L. Schott. (1938) (2)
- Conference on Education for the Gifted (1941) (2)
- LONG-TERM PREDICTION OF SOME OFFICER-EFFECTIVENESS MEASURES FROM APTITUDE TESTS (1958) (1)
- A Decade of Growth for AERA (1974) (1)
- A note on the relationship of allergy to neurasthenic traits. (1937) (1)
- Problems in Identification, Description and Development of the Gifted (1941) (1)
- Comments on Angof's “Some Contributions of the College Board SAT…” (1986) (1)
- Reading Comprehension across National Boundaries. (1972) (1)
- Measurement in Education: Helping Teachers Use Tests. (1969) (1)
- Discussion Review of "Reading Comprehension Education in Fifteen Countries"@@@Reading Comprehension Education in Fifteen Countries (1974) (1)
- Individual differences. (1950) (0)
- Book reviews (1960) (0)
- Handbook of applied psychology. (1951) (0)
- Predicting psychiatrists' psyches. (1960) (0)
- Proceedings of United States Army Military Educational Advisors' Conference, held at the George Washington University, Washington, D. C., on 28-30 January 1958 (1958) (0)
- INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT (1990) (0)
- Note on the reliability of differences in experiments on group effects. (1937) (0)
- The Measurement of Creativity (1963) (0)
- Children above 180 Iq (1942) (0)
- Review of The Psychology of Human Differences. (1949) (0)
- Irving Lorge (1961) (0)
- A VERIFICATION KEY FOR THE THORNDIKE DIMENSIONS OF TEMPERAMENT (1968) (0)
- Peripheral Writings@@@Applied Psychology@@@Industrial Psychology@@@Industrial Psychology and Its Social Foundations@@@Human Factors in Management@@@Personnel Selection; Test and Measurement Techniques@@@Educational Psychology@@@Psychology in Education@@@Guidance Handbook for Elementary Schools@@@Ado (1949) (0)
- A mixed lot. (1977) (0)
- How Children Learn the Principles and Techniques of Problem-Solving (1950) (0)
- Retest Changes in the Iq in Certain Superior Schools (1940) (0)
- Book reviews (1947) (0)
- Chapter II: Development and Applications of Tests of Special Aptitudes (1956) (0)
- HEAD START EVALUATION AND RESEARCH CENTER, TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. ANNUAL REPORT (1ST), SEPTEMBER 1966-AUGUST 1967. (TITLE SUPPLIED). (1967) (0)
- Book reviews (1956) (0)
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