Truman Lee Kelley

Truman Lee Kelley (1884 – 1961) was an American researcher who made seminal contributions to statistics and psychology.[1]

Life

He was born in Whitehall, Muskegon County, Michigan in 1884.[2] He died in 1961.[2]

Career

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

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
  1. Flanagan, John C. (December 1961), "Truman Lee Kelley", Psychometrika, 26 (4): 342–345, doi:10.1007/bf02289767, S2CID 121732765
  2. "Kelley, Truman L.". International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Thomson Gale. 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  3. Founding of KDP, Kappa Delta Pi, retrieved 2017-06-29
  4. Flanagan (1961) calls Interpretation of Educational Measurements "a classic in the educational field".
  5. Flanagan (1961) calls Crossroads in the Mind of Man "an important landmark in aptitude testing".
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