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Educational Testing Service 1982 Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement
For his many contributions to the theory and technique of psychological measurement and its practical applications in educational and clinical settings, and for his advancement of our understanding of intellective and personality structure and development, ETS is pleased to present its 1982 Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement to Raymond Bernard Cattell.
The citation for the 1982 ETS Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement summarizes Professor Cattell's contributions.
Citation: Raymond B. Cattell
In a remarkable career spanning over half a century, Raymond B. Cattell has made a prodigious number of landmark contributions to empirical knowledge and theory in psychology. He has persistently underscored the fundamental importance of wedding substance and method in a unified approach to measurement and empirical research. A continuing testament to this vision is the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology which he helped to found.
Although one might attempt to epitomize Professor Cattell's enormously productive career by listing his major contributions, such an account would lose sight of his singular and truly monumental accomplishment. This is a theory of human development that integrates the intellective, temperamental, and dynamic domains of personality in the context of environmental and cultural influences. This is not to ignore the importance of his many other contributions, such as his factor analytic mapping of functional unities of intelligence and personality, his delineation of the three basic media of assessment, his formalization of ipsative as differentiated from normative measurement, his insightful separation of fluid and crystallized intelligence and subsequent elaboration of the comprehensive triadic theory of intellect, and his numerous developments in the theory and technique of factor analysis, reliability, and validity. Although this impressive list may be extended literally for pages, its essence is that Raymond B. Cattell stands without peer in his quantitative integration of process and structure into a unified theory of learning, personality, and psychological measurement. In accomplishing this scholarly feat, Professor Cattell became a recognized expert in several substantive and methodological specialties simultaneously. Thus, he provides a model of the complete psychologist in an age of specialization.
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