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| Psychometric scholar from Warren presented with lifetime achievement award Posted: 18 Aug 2010 09:47 AM PDT WARREN TWP. – J. Douglas Carroll, 71, Board of Governors professor of management and psychology at Rutgers Business School, Newark, was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 75th anniversary conference of the Psychometric Society, held in July at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Carroll, and his wife, Sylvia, have lived in Warren Township since 1979. Their sons, Gregory and Stephen, are both graduates of Watchung Hills Regional High School. The Psychometric Society is an international nonprofit professional organization devoted to the advancement of quantitative measurement practices in psychology, education, and the social sciences. The society publishes the journal, Psychometrika, which contains articles on the development of quantitative models of psychological phenomena, as well as statistical methods and mathematical techniques for the evaluation of psychological and educational data. Prior to working at Rutgers, Carroll had spent 25 years working at Bell Labs. One colleague estimated that a quarter of all the submissions to Psychometrika during the seventies and eighties came from Carroll's work.Carroll earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and psychology at age 19 at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., in mathematics. He met his wife when they were both students at Florida. She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing. He earned a fellowship to attend Princeton University, where he earned his master's and doctoral degrees with major areas in mathematical-experimental psychology and psychometrics, with a minor in mathematics. Carroll was an instructor and research assistant at Yale University while he completed his doctoral degree at Princeton. When he completed his doctorate, he started at Bell Labs. He also has served on faculty as an assistant professor or adjunct professor at a number of universities, including at New York University, Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY), the University of California at Irvine and at San Diego, and the University of Pennsylvania. The following are comments from the readers. In no way do they represent the view of recordernewspapers.com. We encourage your feedback and dialog, all comments will be reviewed by our Web staff before appearing on the Web site. RecorderNewspapers.com requires readers to register with an e-mail address to leave comments. Registered users: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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