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Charles Hubbard Judd
1873–1946
A key early voice in educational psychology, he pushed schools to study learning with the same care and discipline used in the sciences. His work helped shape modern thinking about curriculum, reading, and how children learn.
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Introduction to the scientific study of education
by Charles Hubbard Judd
About the author
Born on February 20, 1873, Charles Hubbard Judd was an American educational psychologist who played an important role in turning education into a more research-driven field. He studied at Wesleyan University and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig, where experimental psychology was taking shape.
After teaching psychology at Yale, he moved to the University of Chicago in 1909, where he led the Department of Education and helped make the university a major center for the scientific study of schooling. He argued that educational problems should be examined through observation, experiment, and careful analysis rather than theory alone.
His research and writing focused on practical questions about curriculum, teaching methods, reading, language, and number. Remembered as both a psychologist and a reformer, he had a lasting influence on the development of educational psychology in the United States.