Samuel Messick

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Name Samuel Messick

Died October 6, 1998, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Books Individuality in Learning, The effectiveness of coaching for the SAT

Samuel J. Messick III (3 April 1931 – 6 October 1998) was an American psychologist professor whose work at the Educational Testing Service examined construct validity.

Messick influenced language testing in 2 main ways: in proposing a new understanding of how inferences made based on tests must be challenged, and in drawing attention to the consequences of test use.

Division 5 of the American Psychological Association named the annual Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award in his honor. One of his collaborators, Douglas N. Jackson, won the award in 2004.

Works

(ed. with Harold Gulliksen) Psychological scaling: theory and applications; report of a conference. New York: Wiley, 1960.

(ed. with John Ross) Measurement in personality and cognition. New York: Wiley, 1962.

(ed. with Silvan Tomkins) Computer simulation of personality: frontier of psychological theory, New York: Wiley, 1963.

(ed. with Arthur H. Brayfield) Decision and choice; contributions of Sidney Siegel. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

(ed. with Douglas N. Jackson) Problems in human assessment. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

(ed.) Individuality in learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1976.

References

Samuel Messick Wikipedia

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