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Eric F. Gardner
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“Eric Freeman Gardner was born on March 16, 1913, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Eric earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard College (1935) with a major in mathematics and was elected to membership in Phi Delta Kappa (National Honor Society). He then earned a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (1936), with a specialty in teaching mathematics. |
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1942, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve and earned a Certificate in Naval Architecture at the Postgraduate School of Annapolis at the University of Michigan, serving the nation for four eventful years. In 1947, he earned his doctorate in measurement and statistics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education under Truman Kelley. In 1947, Eric was hired as an assistant professor at Syracuse University, where he began a lifelong commitment to teaching, test development, and the university.
In 1968, he was appointed Margaret O. Slocum Professor of Psychology and Education. Eric always taught and advised a number of graduate students with whom he maintained close contact throughout the years.” (Hall, 2003).
“He retired in 1979 from Syracuse University, where he was Slocum professor of psychology and education emeritus. He was senior author of the Stanford Achievement Tests. He was a 15-year member of the committee of examiners which supervised and determined policy for the SAT of the College Entrance Examination Board. He was a consultant for a number of utilities including Niagara Mohawk and General Public Utilities Corp. He was a member of the faculty of state Regents Nuclear Technology Program. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. His first wife, the former Catherine Smith, died in 1997.” (The Post-Standard, 2002).
Dr. Gardner served as the president of American Psychological Association’s Division 5 for Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics in 1967-68, and of National Council on Measurement in Education in 1977-78.
Shortened from: Eric F. Gardner [Obituaries]. (2002, September 29). The Post-Standard, p. B4. Hall, V. (2003). Obituaries: Eric F. Gardner (1913–2002). American Psychologist, 58(4), 317.
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