Truman Lee Kelley
Truman Lee Kelley (1884 – 1961) was an American researcher who made seminal contributions to statistics and psychology.[1]
Life[edit]
He was born in Whitehall, Muskegon County, Michigan in 1884.[2] He died in 1961.[2]
Career[edit]
He received his A.M. degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1911,[2] where he became one of the four founding students of Kappa Delta Pi.[3] He completed his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1914 under the supervision of Edward Thorndike.[2] After doing so, he worked as an instructor at the University of Texas and at Teachers College, and then in 1920 became a professor at Stanford University. He moved to Harvard University in 1931, and retired in 1950.[1]
Bibliography[edit]
His books include:
- Statistical Method. New York: Macmillan (1923).
- Interpretation of Educational Measurements (1927)[4]
- Crossroads in the Mind of Man (1928)[5]
- Scientific Method; Its Function in Research and in Education (1929)[1]
- Tests and Measurements in the Social Sciences (coauthor, 1934)[1]
- Essential Traits of Mental Life (1935)[1]
- The Kelley's Statistical Tables (1938; 2nd ed., 1948)[1]
- Fundamentals of Statistics (1947)[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Flanagan, John C. (December 1961), "Truman Lee Kelley", Psychometrika, 26 (4): 342–345, doi:10.1007/bf02289767, S2CID 121732765
- ^ a b c d "Kelley, Truman L.". International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Thomson Gale. 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ Founding of KDP, Kappa Delta Pi, retrieved 2017-06-29
- ^ Flanagan (1961) calls Interpretation of Educational Measurements "a classic in the educational field".
- ^ Flanagan (1961) calls Crossroads in the Mind of Man "an important landmark in aptitude testing".
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