Percival Symonds
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Percival Mallon Symonds (April 18, 1893 – August 6, 1960) was an American educational psychologist. He was known for his development of several tests in the fields of educational, clinical, and school psychology, including the Foreign Language Prognosis Test, the Personality Survey,[1] and the Symonds picture-study test, a projective test administered to adolescents.[2]
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Born | Percival Mallon Symonds (1893-04-18)April 18, 1893 |
Died | August 6, 1960(1960-08-06) (aged 67) Salem, Massachusetts |
Education | Harvard University (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Educational psychology |
Institutions | University of Hawaii Teachers College, Columbia University |
Thesis | Special disability in algebra (1923) |
Doctoral advisor | Edward Thorndike |
Doctoral students | Arthur Jensen |
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