Agnes Low Rogers (October 28, 1884 – July 16, 1943) was a Scottish educator and educational psychologist.

Early life

Agnes Low Rogers was born in

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, the daughter of William Thomson Rogers and Janet Low Rogers. She earned a master's degree at the

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in 1908. She passed the Moral Sciences Tripos at Cambridge in 1911, and completed doctoral studies at

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in 1917. Her dissertation, published the following year, was titled ''Experimental Tests of Mathematical Ability and their Prognostic Value'' (1918).

Career

Rogers taught at the University of St. Andrews from 1906 to 1908, at the

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from 1911 to 1914, at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1915 to 1918, at

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from 1918 to 1923, at

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from 1923 to 1925, and at

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from 1925 to 1937. She was director of the Phebe Ann Thorne Model School in Bryn Mawr. She also lectured for the New York Kindergarten Association from 1917 to 1918. Rogers was an

educational psychologist An educational psychologist is a psychologist whose differentiating functions may include diagnostic and psycho-educational assessment, psychological counseling in educational communities ( students, teachers, parents, and academic authorit ...

, interested in mathematical abilities and testing. Publications by Rogers included "The Bearing of the New Psychology upon the ''Teaching'' of Mathematics" (1916), ''A Tentative Inventory of Habits'' (1922), "Measurement of the Abilities and Achievements of Children in the Lower Primary Grades" (1923), "Mental Tests for the Selection of University Students" (1925), and "Report on the Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French" (1933). Rogers was elected to the board of trustees at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1919. She was a member of the

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(AAUW), and represented the AAUW at the

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in 1932. She was also a member of the

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, the

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, and the

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Personal life

Agnes Low Rogers died in

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, Scotland, in 1943, aged 58 years.

References

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