NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Showing all 4 results
Historical Review: The Psychometric Tradition. Developing the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Wechsler, David – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1981
The author provides an historical review of how he came to construct the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS). Concepts underlying the WAIS are related to prior work in psychometrics. (RD)
Descriptors: Intellectual Development, Intelligence Tests, Psychometrics, Test Construction
Educational Psychology's First Century.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Walberg, Herbert J.; Haertel, Geneva D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
The history of educational psychology is traced from its beginnings after 1800. The major function of the field has been to serve as a conduit between the academic disciplines of psychology and the applied field of education. The discipline has great potential to contribute to educational policy formation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Psychology
Leta Stetter Hollingworth: Champion of the Psychology of Women and Gifted Children.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Silverman, Linda Kreger – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
L. S. Hollingworth (1886-1939), a neglected pioneer in educational psychology, challenged the prevailing view of the inferiority of women's intelligence and was a founder of the field of education for the gifted. This biographical sketch highlights her many accomplishments in unpopular fields. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Authors, Biographies, Educational History
Intelligence Testing and the Nature/Nurture Debate, 1928-1978: What Next?
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Vernon, P. E. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Changing ideas on intelligence testing and the heritability of intelligence are followed through a fifty-year period. Common criticisms of intelligence tests are examined, but it is concluded that intellectual tests will continue to be of value in diagnosing strengths and weaknesses, particularly of exceptional children. (Editor)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Historical Reviews, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests