Robert M. Thorndike

For other persons named Robert Thorndike, see Robert Thorndike (disambiguation).

Robert M. Thorndike (born March 2, 1943) is an American psychology professor known for several definitive textbooks on research procedures and psychometrics.

He earned his B.A. in psychology fromWesleyan University in 1965 and his Ph.D. from University of Minnesota in 1970. He has taught at Western Washington University since 1970.

He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, Division 5. In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which defended the findings on race and intelligence in The Bell Curve. ^[1]

[edit] Selected bibliography

Cross-Cultural Research Methods. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1973. pp. 351. (with R.W. Brislin and W.J. Lonner).
Correlational Procedures for Research. New York: Gardner Press, 1978. pp. 340.
Data Collection and Analysis: Basic Statistics. New York: Gardner Press, 1982. pp. 478.
A Century of ability testing. Chicago: The Riverside Publishing Company, 1990. pp. 164. (with D. Lohman).
Measurement and evaluation in psychology and education (7th ed.). (2005). New York: Macmillan. pp. 608.
Thorndike, R. M. & Dinnel, D. L. (2001). Introductory statistics for psychology and education. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.