Jerome Murray Sattler (born March 3, 1931) is an American clinical psychologist who is Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor of psychology at

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. He is known for his work regarding

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in children, including his role in developing the fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in 1986, along with R. L. Thorndike and Elizabeth Hagan. He is also the author of the widely used school psychology textbook ''Assessment of Children''. In 2022, he published ''Foundations of Behavioral, Social, and Clinical Assessment of Children'', 7th edition.

Education and academic career

A native of

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, Sattler earned his B.A. from the

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in 1952. He then enrolled in

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at the

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, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology in 1953 and 1959, respectively. He is a

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diplomate of the

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. He retired from the San Diego State University faculty in 1994, after teaching there for 29 years.

Influence

According to a 2002 article in '' Learning and Individual Differences'', "Perhaps no two persons have had as much impact on the practice of intelligence testing in schools in the last 30 years as Jerome Sattler and Alan Kaufman."

Honors and awards

Sattler is a fellow of the

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. In 1998, he received the Senior Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of School Psychology. In 2003, he received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Central Missouri State University. In 2005, he received the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology from the

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. In 2006, he received the San Diego Psychological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Award. In 2015, he received ''The 1949 Award'' from the University of Kansas Clinical Psychology Program in recognition of being a distinguished alumni for his outstanding contributions to clinical psychology. In 2018, he received the ''Commemorative Medallion''—“Semper Discentes et Adservientes” (Always Learning and Serving)—from the College of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University.

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