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- Title
Profiles in Research.
- Authors
Wainer, Howard
- Abstract
The article presents an interview with research scientist Howard Wainer. Talking about his life and career he told that his father was an anatomist who, because of the depression, had trouble finding work, so he became a dentist and was successfully building a practice when he died. He left his mother with his 6-month-old brother and him. His grandparents then bought a house and they moved in with them. He shares his experiences at Columbia University, New York which motivated him to stay interested in mathematics despite the best efforts of his college instructors to wring it out of him. He discusses various events that led him to psychometrics. He also informed that how he overcome his inability to learn German. He describes his meeting with Don Rubin, who had accepted a position with the Environmental Protection Agency, and how he joined Educational Testing Service's (ETS) Research Statistics Group. The deterioration that characterized the ETS environment for the latter part of the 1990s ended abruptly in 2000, when after an effort to unionize ETS research staff only narrowly failed, ETS' trustees appointed Kurt Landgraf to replace Nancy Cole as president.
- Subjects
WAINER, Howard; RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; TRUSTS &; trustees; LANDGRAF, Kurt
- Publication
Journal of Educational & Behavioral Statistics, 2005, Vol 30, Issue 4, p465
- ISSN
1076-9986
- Publication type
Interview
- DOI
10.3102/10769986030004465