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Charles Hubbard Judd
1873–1946
A pioneering educational psychologist, he helped push the study of teaching and learning toward careful observation and research. His work also helped make the University of Chicago a major center for the scientific study of education.
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Introduction to the scientific study of education
by Charles Hubbard Judd
About the author
Born in Bareilly, India, on February 20, 1873, to missionary parents, he later built his career in the United States and became one of the early leaders of educational psychology. He studied at Wesleyan University and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig, where he worked in the orbit of experimental psychology.
After serving at Yale, he joined the University of Chicago in 1909 and led its Department of Education until 1938. He argued that education should be studied with scientific methods rather than shaped mainly by abstract theory, and he became known for research on reading, school subjects, and classroom practice.
He died on July 18, 1946. Remembered as both a psychologist and an education reformer, he played an important role in shaping education as a modern field of research and professional study.