| LC control no. | n 79117211 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lord, Frederic M., 1912-2000 |
| Birth date | 1912-11-12 |
| Death date | 2000-02-05 |
| Place of birth | Hanover (N.H.) |
| Place of death | Naples (Fla.) |
| Field of activity | Psychometrics |
| Affiliation | Educational Testing Service |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians |
| Found in | His A theory of test scores, 1952. New York times, Feb. 10, 2000: obituaries (Frederic Lord; mathematician and dir. of statistical analysis, Educational Testing Service; b. Frederic Mather Lord, Nov. 12, 1912 in Hanover, N.H.; d. Feb. 5, 2000 in Naples, Fla.) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (Educational Testing Service) Wikipedia, January 8, 2016 (Frederic M. Lord; born November 12, 1912 in Hanover, NH; died February 5, 2000; psychometrician for Educational Testing Service; he was the source of much of the seminal research on item response theory, including two important books: Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores (1968, with Melvin Novick, and two chapters by Allen Birnbaum), and Applications of Item Response Theory to Practical Testing Problems (1980); Lord has been called the "Father of Modern Testing") ancestry.com, January 8, 2016 (Frederic Mather Lord; Frederic M. Lord; Frederic Lord, a mathematician whose doctoral work at Princeton laid the foundation for scoring the fill-in-the-bubble examinations that have tormented generations of No. 2-pencil-wielding applicants to colleges and graduate schools, died on Saturday, February 5, 2000 at a nursing home in Naples, Fla.; he was 87, and had lived in Naples since 1993; Dr. Lord joined the fledgling Educational Testing Service, the developer of the College Board exams, in March 1949 as director of statistical analysis; he stayed for 33 years; he devised a trailblazing mathematical model that enabled test writers to categorize particular questions, based on their difficulty; in addition to the College Board exams, Dr. Lord's models influenced the Graduate Record exam, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, the Graduate Management Admissions Test and the Law School Admissions Test; Dr. Lord graduated from Dartmouth in 1936 with a bachelor's degree in sociology; he moved to the Midwest to explore a career as a novelist, but ultimately landed at the University of Minnesota, where he earned a master's degree in educational psychology; in 1944, he joined the graduate record office of the Carnegie Foundation, a precursor to the testing service, first as a research assistant and later as its assistant director; in 1951, having moved to the testing service, he earned a doctorate in psychology from Princeton; Dr. Lord officially retired from the testing service in 1982) ET--Updated record. Added 4th-5th 670, info to 046, and 3XX fields. Added death year to 100 field. |
| Associated language | eng |
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