Robert Glaser, Who Shaped the Science of Student Testing, Dies at 91
By PAUL VITELLO
Published: February 15, 2012
Robert Glaser, a cognitive psychologist who helped define the terms of the national debate over student testing, and who pioneered ways of measuring not only how students learn but how teachers teach, died on Feb. 4 in Pittsburgh. He was 91.
The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said a spokesman for the University of PittsburghLearning Research and Development Center, which Dr. Glaser helped found in 1963.
Dr. Glaser was probably best known for promoting a kind of standardized test that became the norm for the federal government’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, the state-by-state evaluation commonly known as The Nation’s Report Card.
The method, which he did not invent but championed
