Stanley, Julian C.

(b. 1918, Macon, Georgia). Ed.D., Ed.M., Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; B.S. Education, Georgia Southern University.

Stanley, Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Director of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at the Johns Hopkins University, is one of the most influential educational and behavioral statisticians of the past half century.

The epic collaboration of Stanley's research career was in 1960 with Donald Campbell while he was at Northwestern University and Stanley was at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. They coauthored a chapter for a handbook that resulted in a separate short-book publication titled Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research. Thanks to Campbell's grasp of the theory of research and Stanley's statistical contributions, this little book has been widely used (at least a quarter of a million copies have been sold) in a variety of courses in education, psychology, sociology, and even history.

Stanley credits Campbell as being “one of the most illustrious psychologists of his day.” Stanley was also influenced by Frederick Mosteller, O. Hobart Mowrer, Robert R. Sears, Walter Dearborn, William O. Jenkins, Nicholas Hobbs, Lee J. Cronbach, William Kruskal, Gordon Allport, Clyde Kluckhohn, Arthur Jensen, Camilla Benbow, David Lubinski, Linda E. Brody, T. L. Kelley, P. J. Rulon, F. B. Davis, E. F. Lindquist, R. Ebel, and P. O. Johnson.

He is the author of Educational and Psychological Measurement and Evaluation (currently in its seventh edition) and Former President of the American Educational Research Association; the National Council on Measurement in Education; and the Divisions of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics and Educational Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of North Texas and the University [Page 400]of West Georgia. Stanley received the Cattell Award of APA Division 1 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of APA Division 5, the AERA Research Award, the MENSA Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Thorndike Award of APA Division 15. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Belgium (1958–1959) and New Zealand (1974).