Percival Symonds

Percival Symonds
Born
Percival Mallon Symonds

(1893-04-18)April 18, 1893
Newtonville, Massachusetts
DiedAugust 6, 1960(1960-08-06) (aged 67)
Salem, Massachusetts
EducationHarvard University (B.A.)
Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D)
Scientific career
FieldsEducational psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Hawaii
Teachers College, Columbia University
ThesisSpecial disability in algebra (1923)
Doctoral advisorEdward Thorndike
Doctoral studentsArthur Jensen

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]

  1. ^ Fagan, Thomas; Warden, Paul G. (1996). Historical Encyclopedia of School Psychology. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 380. ISBN 9780313290152.
  2. ^ Stedman, Thomas Lathrop (2005). Stedman's Medical Eponyms. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 690. ISBN 9780781754439.