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Benjamin DeKalbe Wood (November 10, 1894 – July 6, 1986) was an American
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, researcher, and director / professor at Columbia University and an expert in the educational field.


Early life

Wood was born in
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, on November 10, 1894. He attended the Brownsville area schools, Mission High School, and the University of Texas.


Later life and death

Woods retired in 1960 but remained active. In 1969, he was given the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service. He received a honorary doctor degree from Union College in New York, from Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and from Colorado State Teachers College. Wood died at the age of 91 of a heart attack on July 8, 1986.


Legacy

Wood established the Elbenwood Fund for Education Research, the Ben D. Wood Fellowship Economic Fund and the Institute for Learning Technologies Fund. Twenty-six students had qualified through 2009.


Committees and societies

Wood was a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the
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. In academics, he was a curator of
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, and the chair or director of 20 national education committees. He was a director of Eastman's teaching film experiment, the
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test service, and the Commonwealth Fund for research on measurement of achievement in college courses. Wood served on the New York state board of regents' examining board, and on committees for the American Institute of Accountants.


Works

Books published by Wood are: * ''The Measurement of College Work'' (1921) * ''The Measurement of Law School Work'' (1924) * ''Columbia Research Bureau American History Test'' (1926) * ''Motion Pictures in the Classroom'' (1929) * ''Study of the Relations of Secondary and Higher Education in Pennsylvania'' (1938) * ''Our Air-age World: A Textbook in Global Geography'' (1945) * ''Geography of the World'' (1959)


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