Samuel Messick
Samuel Messick | |
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Born | April 3, 1931 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | October 6, 1998 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | University of Pennsylvania Princeton University |
Occupation | Psychologist |
Samuel J. Messick III (April 3, 1931 – October 6, 1998) was an American psychologist who worked for the Educational Testing Service (ETS).
Early life[]
Messick was born on April 3, 1931 in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and he earned a PhD from Princeton University.[1]
Career[]
Messick worked as a psychologist for the Educational Testing Service (ETS).[1] He 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.
Death and legacy[]
Messick resided in Pennington, New Jersey.[1] He died on October 6, 1998 in Philadelphia, at 67.[1]
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.
- (ed.) Validity. In R. L. Linn (Ed.) Educational Measurement (3rd ed., pp. 13–103). New York: Macmillan, 1989.
Further reading[]
- McNamara, Tim. "Validity in language testing: The challenge of Sam Messick's legacy". Language Assessment Quarterly: An International Journal. 2006, Vol. 3, No. 1, Pages 31–51
- Weideman, Albert. 2012. "Validation and validity beyond Messick". Per Linguam, Vol. 3, No. 2, Pages 1–14
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Educational testing leader Samuel Messick dies of heart failure". Standard-Speaker. Hazleton, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1998. p. 2. Retrieved November 24, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1931 births
- 1998 deaths
- People from Philadelphia
- People from Pennington, New Jersey
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- American psychologists
- 20th-century psychologists
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