Sidney L. Pressey

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PhD Psychology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Sidney Leavitt Pressey was professor of psychology at Ohio State University for many years. He is famous for having invented a teaching machine many years before the idea became popular."The first.. [teaching machine] was developed by Sidney L. Pressey... While originally developed as a self-scoring machine... [it] demonstrated its ability to actually teach".Pressey joined Ohio State in 1921, and stayed there until he retired in 1959. He continued publishing after retirement, with 18 papers between 1959 and 1967. He was a cognitive psychologist who "rejected a view of learning as an accumulation of responses governed by environmental stimuli in favor of one governed by meaning, intention, and purpose". In fact, he had been a cognitive psychologist his entire life, well before the "mythical birthday of the cognitive revolution in psychology". He helped create the American Association of Applied Psychology and later helped merge this group with the APA, after World War Two. In 1964 he was given the first E. L. Thorndike Award. The next year he became a charter member for National Academy of Education. After his retirement he created a scholarship program for honor students at Ohio State. In 1976, Ohio State named a learning resource building Sidney L. Pressey Hall.

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Sidney L. Pressey's Published Works

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Development and Appraisal of Devices Providing Immediate Automatic Scoring of Objective Tests and Concomitant Self-Instruction (1950) (153)
A machine for automatic teaching of drill material. (125)
A third and fourth contribution toward the coming "industrial revolution" in education. (1932) (115)
The functional psychoses. (83)
Psychological Development Through the Life Span (1957) (76)
Educational acceleration : appraisals and basic problems (1949) (70)
Tests "indigenous" to the adult and older years. (1957) (61)
The Influence of Color upon Mental and Motor Efficiency (1921) (52)
Teaching machine (and learning theory) crisis. (1963) (50)
Minor studies from the psychological laboratory of Indiana University. I. A comparison of colored and white children by means of a group scale of intelligence. (47)
Development of the interest-attitude tests. (1933) (38)
Life: A Psychological Survey (1939) (32)
A Group Scale for Investigating the Emotions. (30)
Psychology and the new education (1935) (29)
The gifted child grows up: Twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group. (1949) (27)
Basic unresolved teaching‐machine problems (1962) (22)
Case study comparisons of successful and problem old people. (1950) (20)
Fordling accelerates ten years after. (1967) (20)
War-time accelerates ten years after. (1955) (19)
A Critical Study of the Concept of Silent Reading Ability. (19)
Major Neglected Need Opportunity: Old-Age Counseling. (1972) (18)
Training College Freshmen to Read (1930) (17)
Changes from 1923 to 1943 in the attitudes of public school and university students. (1946) (17)
'Cross-out' tests with suggestions as to a group scale of the emotions; studies from the psychological laboratory of Indiana University. (1919) (17)
Distinctive features in psychological test measurements made upon dementia praecox and chronic alcoholic patients. (14)
Improving undergraduate instruction in psychology. (1953) (13)
Irregularity in a psychological examination as a measure of mental deterioration. (1918) (12)
Minor studies from the psychological laboratory of Indiana University: The relation of the general intelligence of school children to the occupation of their fathers. (1919) (12)
Acceleration: Disgrace or Challenge? (1946) (11)
The place and functions of psychology in undergraduate programs. (1949) (11)
A Statistical Study of Children's Errors in Sentence-Structure (1925) (11)
Group point scale for measuring general intelligence with first results from 1,100 school children. (10)
Psychology in education (1959) (10)
An Attempt to Measure the Comparative Importance of General Intelligence and Certain Character Traits in Contributing to Success in School (1920) (10)
A Statistical Study of Usage and of Children's Errors in Capitalization (1924) (9)
The Testing Program. (9)
A Handbook for Old Age Counsellors. (1945) (9)
Acceleration the Hard Way (1944) (9)
Age Counseling: Crises, Services, Potentials. (1973) (9)
Auto-elucidation without programing!: AUTO-ELUCIDATION WITHOUT PROGRAMING! (1964) (8)
Age and the Doctorate—Then and Now: With Some Possibly Radical Suggestions (1962) (8)
A Statistical Study of Current Usage in Punctuation (1924) (8)
Introduction to the use of standard tests (1924) (7)
A comparative study of the emotional attitudes and interests of Indian and white children. (1933) (7)
EDUCATIONAL ACCELERATION: Occasional Procedure or Major Issue? (1962) (7)
Time-saving in professional training. (1946) (7)
Re‐program programing? (1967) (7)
The Class as a Psycho-Sociological Unit (1943) (7)
Credit by Examination: Present Use and Future Need (1945) (7)
A study of country children in (1) a good and 2) a poor farming district by means of a group scale of intelligence. (7)
Mental Abnormality and Deficiency (1928) (7)
Genius at 80; and other oldsters. (1967) (6)
The Final Ordeal (1932) (6)
Two insiders' searchings for best life in old age. (1966) (6)
Psychology and the new education / Sidney L. Pressey (1950) (6)
Report of the Committee on Contributions of Psychology to Problems of Preparation for Teaching. (1942) (6)
Machine for intelligence tests (1927) (6)
TWO BASIC NEGLECTED PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS. (1965) (6)
First revision of a group scale designed for investigating the emotions, with tentative norms. (Minor Stud. fr. Psychol. Lab. of Indiana Univ., VII.). (6)
Age of college graduation and success in adult life. (1946) (5)
Extend careers at both ends (1968) (4)
Toward earlier creativity in psychology. (1960) (4)
A Neglected Crucial Psycho-Educational Problem (1944) (4)
Further data with regard to sex differences. (4)
The Common Sense of Statistics. (4)
Measurement of Handwriting. (4)
Irregularity on a Binet Examination as a Measure of Its Reliability (1919) (4)
Potentials of age: an exploratory field study. (1957) (3)
Suggestions Looking Toward a Fundamental Revision of Current Statistical Procedure, as Applied to Tests. (3)
A comparison of the emotional development of Indians belonging to different tribes. (1933) (3)
Education Through the Life Span (1980) (3)
Some Data on the Doctorate (1944) (3)
Teaching in the ivory tower, with rarely a step outside. (1955) (3)
Fundamentalism, Isolationism, and Biological Pedantry Versus Socio-Cultural Orientation, in Psychology (1940) (3)
Auto elucidation without programming (1964) (3)
Research adventures in university teaching. (3)
We Call It Human Nature.@@@Life: A Psychological Survey.@@@Laboratory Workbook in Psychology.@@@Fields of Psychology.@@@Current Psychologies. (1940) (3)
In Supplementation of America's Psychologists. (1958) (3)
A Puncture of the Huge “Programing” Boom? (1964) (3)
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY IN ALGEBRA (1932) (3)
A study of the emotional attitudes of Indians possessing different degrees of Indian blood. (1933) (3)
Educational acceleration and post-war scientific leadership. (1944) (2)
Any Rights as to My Dying (1977) (2)
The practical 'efficiency' of a group scale of intelligence: Studies from the psychological laboratory of Indiana University. (2)
Practical information test for use with delinquents and illiterate adults. (2)
Suggestions with regard to Professor Thurstone's "method of critical scores". (1919) (2)
Psychology and the New Education@@@Psychology in Education (1947) (2)
Major Problems--and the Major Problem--Motivation, Learning and Education in the Later Years. (1956) (2)
Psycho-Technology in Higher Education Versus Psychologizing (1963) (2)
The technique of case study. (2)
Forty-year changes in college student attitudes. (1963) (2)
Results of certain honesty tests given to a group of rural white children and to two groups of Indian children. (1933) (2)
The new Division on Maturity and Old Age; its history and potential service. (1948) (2)
Mental abnormality and deficiency : an introduction to the study of problems of mental health (2)
The Causes of Children's Errors in Capitalization: A Psychological Analysis (1933) (2)
"A Brief Group Scale of Intelligence for use in School Surveys": A Correction. (1)
Experimenting with the Examination (1930) (1)
Casebook of research in educational psychology (1937) (1)
Acceleration and the College Student (1944) (1)
A University Activity Program (1937) (1)
Two Important Points with Regard to Age-Grade Tables. (1)
Empiricism versus Formalism in Work with Mental Tests (1)
A note on the critical note. (1938) (1)
Inside Old Age (1962) (1)
Not all decline. (1966) (1)
THE LANGUAGE CONCEPTS NEEDED BY COLLEGE FRESHMEN (1930) (1)
THE ESSENTIAL TECHNICAL VOCABULARY OF PLANE GEOMETRY (1932) (1)
Henry Herbert Goddard (1866-1957) (1971) (1)
In gerontology 57 years--and 85. (1974) (1)
A brief scale of intelligence for use in school surveys. (1)
The problem of the unselected group in the standardization of tests. (1)
Concerning the Needed Next Step in Auto-Instruction (1962) (1)
Psychology and the new education (Rev. ed.). (1944) (1)
The study of the present condition. (1)
Most Important and Most Neglected Topic: Potentials (1963) (1)
Are the present psychological scales reliable for the examination of adults? An analytical comparison of examinations for children and for adults. (1)
Book Review: Educational Psychology (1914) (1)
Part III. Using norms. (0)
All About Teaching Machines in One Easy Filmstrip. (1961) (0)
Educational acceleration; appraisals and basic problems. (Bur. Educ. Res. Monogr., No. 31.). (1949) (0)
On the Committee vs. the Scientific Approach to Problems of Professional Training. (1948) (0)
The older psychologist; his potentials and his problems. (1955) (0)
Tests of the Emotions (0)
Educating Gifted Children. Robert F. DeHaan and Robert J. Havinhurst. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., ed. 2, 1961. x + 362 pp. $5 (1961) (0)
Those Difficult Middle-aged Men. (1969) (0)
Scale of Attainment No. 2.—An Examination for Measurement in History, Arithmetic, and English in the Eighth Grade (1921) (0)
Making the Testing Program Worth While. (0)
Part I. Tabulating. (0)
Part II. Finding the median. (0)
The treatment of atypical mental conditions. (0)
Jobes at 80. (1958) (0)
Book Reviews: Educating Gifted Children (1957) (0)
"The Efficiency of the Group Point Scale in Prognosticating Success and Failure in Junior High School": A Correction. (1920) (0)
The Measurement of General Mental Ability. (0)
School Problems and Tests. (0)
The aged and society. (1951) (0)
Age and route sales efficiency. (1950) (0)
Education's (and psychology's) disgrace: And a double-dare (1969) (0)
Educational psychology: Techniques of educational adjustment. (1950) (0)
What is a Test (0)
The High Cost of Testing (1921) (0)
CAVAN, RUTH SHONLE, ERNEST W. BUR GESS, ROBERT J. HAVIGHURST, and HER BERT GOLDHAMER. Personal Adjustment in Old Age. Pp. xiii, 204. Chicago: Sci ence Research Associates, 1949. $2.95 (1950) (0)
How Tests are Made. (0)
Comment: any rights as to my dying? (1977) (0)
Some problems of differential diagnosis. (0)
Sound and Practical Recommendations: Educational Acceleration: Appraisals and Basic Problems (1950) (0)
Tests in the Content Subjects--Geography and History. (0)
New Book on the Old. (1962) (0)
Current Publications Received (1941) (0)
The classification of mental types and diseases. (0)
Extent of mental disease and disability. (0)
Sidney Leavitt Pressey. (1967) (0)
Educating Gifted Children . Robert F. DeHaan and Robert J. Havighurst. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1957. ix+276 pp. $5. (1957) (0)
Use of Tests of General Mental Ability. (0)
Comparsion of a Girls' Reform School Attendants at a State Hospital for the Insane and Public School Children by Means of Certain Tests of Intelligence (1921) (0)
Tests in Arithmetic. (0)
Intelligence and its measurement: A symposium--VII. (0)
Methods of handling test scores: Brief lessons in tabulating, finding medians, comparison with norms, making and interpreting tables and graphs, and use of tests in dealing with everyday school problems -- with practice exercises. (0)
Three little appreciated facts regarding mental disease and deficiency. (0)
The organic psychoses. (0)
Sinews or Fat: Educating Gifted Children . Robert F. DeHaan and Robert J. Havinhurst. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., ed. 2, 1961. x + 362 pp. $5, (1961) (0)
Use and Misuse of Tests. (0)
Book Review:Educational Psychology Alvin C. Eurich, Herbert A. Carroll (1936) (0)
Measurement of Ability in Written English. (0)
Part IV. Studying relationships. (0)
Tests in the High School Subjects. (0)
The causes of abnormal mental states (etiology). (0)
The "normal" individual. (0)
The "borderland" conditions. (0)
Tests in Reading. (0)
Certain Findings and Proposals regarding Professional Retirement (1955) (0)
Death by Choice (1975) (0)
Current Publications Received (1937) (0)
A preliminary investigation of general prognosis, i.e., "General Intelligence." (0)
The 'efficiency' of a group scale and intelligence in prognosticating success and failure in junior high school. (0)
The feeble-minded. (0)
[Programmed instruction]. (1968) (0)
For the Continually Developing. (1965) (0)
Research adventures in university teaching: eighteen investigations regarding college and university problems (0)

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