The American psychologist and educator Edward Lee Thorndike (1874-1949) was the originator of modern educational psychology and influenced 20th-century American education immeasurably. Edward Lee Thorndike was born on Aug. 31, 1874, in Williamsburg,...

Edward Thorndike () Edward Lee Thorndike was born on August 31, 1874, in Williamsburg, Massachusetts. He died on August 9, 1949, in Montrose, New York. Thorndike proceeded very rapidly through his graduate education. After...

Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 - August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on animal behavior and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and...

As the battle for influence over school reform continues in the 21st century, Mr. Gibboney finds that Edward Thorndike maintains the upper hand over John Dewey. One cannot understand the history of education in the United States during the twentieth century...

Elizabeth (Fritz) Thorndike, a trustee of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and an energetic volunteer for social causes and emergencies, and so energetic a volunteer for social causes and emergencies that one physician said "she was the social service department,"...

In the following excerpt from her book The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike, Joncich explicates the major points in Thorndike's thesis “Animal Intelligence” and discusses its reception in the academic community.

In the following essay, Joncich explains the revolutionary influence of Thorndike's scientific method of educational psychology.

In the following essay, Beatty discusses the ways in which Thorndike developed and then marketed his notions about using scientific methodology in educational psychology to create an empirical way of measuring morality and character.

A critique of Edward Thorndike's 1910 article in the Journal of Educational Psychology, which explains the relationship between education and psychology and the importance of psychology in understanding ideas and material in education. The critique includes a synopsis of the article, the article's limitations, the relevance of the topic, and the implications for the field of educational psychology.