Jerome Sattler


Jerome Murray Sattler is an American educational psychologist who is Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University. He is known for his work regarding intelligence testing in children, including his role in developing the fourth edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale in 1986, along with R. L. Thorndike and Elizabeth Hagan. He is also the author of the widely used school psychology textbook Assessment of Children.

Education and academic career

A native of New York City, Sattler earned his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1952. He then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Kansas, where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology in 1953 and 1959, respectively. He is a clinical psychology diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He retired from the
San Diego State University faculty in 1994, after teaching there for twenty-nine years.

Influence

According to a 2002 article in Learning and Individual Differences, "Perhaps no two persons have had as much impact on the practice of intelligence testing in schools in the last 30 years as Jerome Sattler and Alan Kaufman."

Honors and awards

Sattler is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 1998, he received the Senior Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association's Division of School Psychology. In 2005, he received the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. In 2006, he received the San Diego Psychological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Award.