Richard Wesley Woodcock (January 29, 1928 – January 2, 2024) was an American psychometrician. He is known for his work on the Cattell–Horn–Carroll theory of

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and for his work in the development of several

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s, including the

Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities The Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities is a set of intelligence tests first developed in 1977 by Richard Woodcock and Mary E. Bonner Johnson (although Johnson's contribution is disputed). It was revised in 1989, again in 2001, and mo ...

and the

Dean–Woodcock Neuropsychological Assessment System The Dean–Woodcock Neuropsychological assessment, Neuropsychological Assessment System (DWNAS) provides a standardized procedure for assessing an individual's Sensory perception, sensory, Motor system, motor, emotional, cognitive, and academic fu ...

. He is also credited with introducing the

Rasch model The Rasch model, named after Georg Rasch, is a psychometric model for analyzing categorical data, such as answers to questions on a reading assessment or questionnaire responses, as a function of the trade-off between the respondent's abilities, ...

into

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research. He was a fellow of the

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and the American Academy of School Psychology, as well as a Diplomate of the

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. In 1993, he received the Senior Scientist in School Psychology Award from Division 16 of the American Psychological Association. Two research institutes are named after him: the Woodcock Education Center at

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, and the Woodcock Institute for Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice at

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, both of which opened in the fall of 2016. As of 2018, he lived in

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. Woodcock was born on January 29, 1928, and died on January 2, 2024, at the age of 95.

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