The E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Awards is an award of the
American Psychological Association
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given to living recipients for substantial career achievements in
educational psychology
Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes, from both cognitive and behavioral perspectives, allows researchers to understand individual differences in ...
. The award's winners are recognized for research in the best tradition of educational psychology, meaning that the award is conferred for original, scientific, empirically-based research that contributes significantly to knowledge, theory, or practice in educational psychology.
It was named for the noted psychologist,
Edward Thorndike.
Recipients
Source
America Psychological Associationan
APA Division 15
*2021 Daniel Schwartz
*2020 Thomas L Good
*2019 Steve Graham
*2018
Joanna P. Williams
*2017
Robert Slavin
Robert Edward Slavin (September 17, 1950 – April 24, 2021) was an American psychologist who studied educational and academic issues. He was known for the ''Success for All'' educational model. Until his death, he was a distinguished professor ...
*2016
Edward Haertel
*2015
Michelene Chi
*2014
Stephen J. Ceci
*2013
Sandra Graham
*2012
Keith Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich is a Canadian psychologist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto and former Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science. His research areas are the psych ...
*2011
Barry Zimmerman
*2010
Richard Shavelson
*2009
Carol Dweck
Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. She is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She was on the faculty at Columbia ...
*2008
Bernard Weiner
Bernard Weiner (born 1935) is an American social psychologist known for developing a form of attribution theory which seeks to explain the emotional and motivational entailments of academic success and failure. His contributions include linking ...
*2007
Jere Brophy
*2006
Patricia Alexander
Patricia A. Alexander is an educational psychologist who has conducted notable research on the role of individual difference, strategic processing, and interest in students' learning. She is currently a university distinguished professor, Jean Mul ...
*2005
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
*2004
G. Michael Pressley
*2003
Robert J. Sternberg
*2002
Joel Levin
*2001
John Bransford
*2000
Richard E. Mayer
*1999
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura (; December 4, 1925 – July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist who was the David Starr Jordan Professor in Psychology at Stanford University.
Bandura was responsible for contributions to the field of education and to ...
*1998
Lauren Resnick
*1997
Richard C. Anderson
*1996
David Berliner
David C. Berliner is an educational psychologist. He was professor and dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education.
Biography
After a B.A. in psychology from U.C.L.A. and an M.A. in psychology from California State Univ ...
*1995
Lee Shulman
*1994
James Greeno
*1993
Samuel Messick
*1992
Robert Linn
*1991
Herbert Klausmeier
*1990
Richard E. Snow
*1989
Frank Farley
*1988
Wilbert J. McKeachie
*1987
Merlin Wittrock
*1986
Nathaniel Gage
Nathaniel Lees Gage (August 1, 1917 – August 17, 2008) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to a scientific understanding of teaching. He conceived and edited the first ''Handbook of Research on Teaching'' ...
*1985
Ernst Rothkopf
*1984
Anne Anastasi
Anne Anastasi (December 19, 1908 – May 4, 2001) was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her generative work, ''Psychological Testing'', remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the ...
*1983
Jeanne Chall
Jeanne Sternlicht Chall (January 1, 1921 – November 27, 1999), a Harvard Graduate School of Education psychologist, writer, and literacy researcher for over 50 years, believed in the importance of direct, systematic instruction in reading in spit ...
*1982
Robert Glaser Robert Glaser (January 18, 1921 – February 4, 2012) was an American educational psychologist, who has made significant contributions to theories of learning and instruction. The key areas of his research focused on the nature of aptitudes and in ...
*1981
Jerome Bruner
Jerome Seymour Bruner (October 1, 1915 – June 5, 2016) was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at ...
*1980
Richard C. Atkinson
*1979
Patrick Suppes
Patrick Colonel Suppes (; March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psychology ...
*1978
Julian Stanley
Julian Cecil Stanley (July 9, 1918 – August 12, 2005) was an American psychologist. He was an advocate of accelerated education for academically gifted children. He founded the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY), as wel ...
*1977
David Ausubel
David Paul Ausubel (October 25, 1918 – July 9, 2008) was an American psychologist. His most significant contribution to the fields of educational psychology, cognitive science, and science education learning was on the development and research o ...
*1976
Jean Piaget
Jean William Fritz Piaget (, , ; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemolo ...
*1975
Joy P. Guilford
*1974
Robert M. Gagne
*1973
Benjamin S. Bloom
*1972
John C. Flanagan
*1971
Robert L. Thorndike
Robert Ladd Thorndike (September 22, 1910 – September 21, 1990) was an American psychometrician and educational psychologist who made significant contributions to the analysis of reliability, the interpretation of error, cognitive ability, and ...
*1970
John B. Carroll
*1969
Robert J. Havighurst
*1968
Cyril Burt
Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA (3 March 1883 – 10 October 1971) was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his s ...
*1967
Lee Cronbach
Lee Joseph Cronbach (April 22, 1916 – October 1, 2001) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to psychological testing and measurement.
At the University of Illinois, Urbana, Cronbach produced many of his works: the "Al ...
*1966
Burrhus F. Skinner
*1965
William A. Brownell
*1964
Sidney L. Pressey
See also
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Spearman Medal
The Spearman Medal is an early-career award of the British Psychological Society's Research Board, given in recognition of outstanding published work in psychology which represents a significant body of work in terms of theoretical contributions, o ...
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Bruno Klopfer Award The Bruno Klopfer Award is an award for lifetime achievement in personality psychology managed by the Society for Personality Assessment. It is the Society's most prestigious award and is named after the Society's founder Bruno Klopfer.
It was fi ...
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