Herbert John Klausmeier (November 4, 1915 – May 20, 2014) was an American

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 ...

. He served in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1946. He received his PhD from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1949. He was behind the proposal that established the

Wisconsin Center for Education Research Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, is an education research center founded in 1964 as a branch of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. WCER currently has extr ...

.Paul Baker
"Colleagues recall work of education research pioneer Klausmeier".
''School of Education News'', 3 June 2014. He received the

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in 1991.

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