Samuel Messick
Samuel Messick | |
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| Born | Samuel James Messick III April 3, 1931 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | October 6, 1998 (aged 67) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Psychologist |
| Awards | E. L. Thorndike Award (1993) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania Princeton University |
| Thesis | The perception of attitude relationships: a multidimensional scaling approach to the structuring of social attitudes (1954) |
| Harold Gulliksen[1] | |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Educational Testing Service |
Samuel James Messick III (April 3, 1931 – October 6, 1998) was an American psychologist who worked for the Educational Testing Service (ETS), known for his contributions to validity theory.[2]
Early life
[edit]Messick was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor's degree, and he earned a PhD under the supervision of Harold Gulliksen from Princeton University in 1954.[1][3][4] He conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign until 1955.[2]
Career
[edit]From 1956 till his retirement, Messick worked as a psychologist for the Educational Testing Service (ETS).[3] 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
[edit]Messick resided in Pennington, New Jersey.[3] He died on October 6, 1998, in Philadelphia, at 67.[3]
The Quantitative and Qualitative Methods division (Division 5) of the American Psychological Association created the Samuel J. Messick Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award to honor Messick's contributions. Douglas N. Jackson, a previous collaborator of Messick, earned the award in 2004.[5]
Works
[edit]- (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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 1 2 Wijsen, Lisa D.; Borsboom, Denny; Cabaço, Tiago; Heiser, Willem J. (2019). "An Academic Genealogy of Psychometric Society Presidents". Psychometrika. 84 (2): 562–588. doi:10.1007/s11336-018-09651-4. ISSN 0033-3123. PMC 6502785. PMID 30656499.
- 1 2 Landis, Dan; Tzeng, Oliver C. S. (2002). "Samuel J. Messick (1931-1998)". American Psychologist. 57 (2): 132–133. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.57.2.132. ISSN 1935-990X.
- 1 2 3 4 "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.
- ↑ "Samuel J. Messick *54". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 21 January 2016.
- ↑ "Samuel J. Messick". www.pearsonassessments.com. Pearson Assessments. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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