Agnes L. Rogers
A slim white woman wearing a high collar.
Agnes L. Rogers, from a 1919 publication.
Born
Agnes Low Rogers

October 28, 1884
Dundee
DiedJuly 16, 1943
Craichie
NationalityScottish
OccupationProfessor of education

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

Early life

Agnes Low Rogers was born in Dundee, the daughter of William Thomson Rogers and Janet Low Rogers. She earned a master's degree at the University of St. Andrews in 1908.[1] She passed the Moral Sciences Tripos at Cambridge in 1911, and completed doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1917.[2] Her dissertation, published the following year, was titled Experimental Tests of Mathematical Ability and their Prognostic Value (1918).[3]

Career

Rogers taught at the University of St. Andrews from 1906 to 1908, at the University of Aberdeen from 1911 to 1914, at Teachers College, Columbia University from 1915 to 1918, at Goucher College from 1918 to 1923, at Smith College from 1923 to 1925, and at Bryn Mawr College from 1925 to 1937.[4][5][6] She was director of the Phebe Ann Thorne Model School in Bryn Mawr.[7] She also lectured for the New York Kindergarten Association from 1917 to 1918.[2]

Rogers was an educational psychologist, interested in mathematical abilities and testing.[8][9] Publications by Rogers included "The Bearing of the New Psychology upon the Teaching of Mathematics" (1916),[10] A Tentative Inventory of Habits (1922),[11] "Measurement of the Abilities and Achievements of Children in the Lower Primary Grades" (1923),[12] "Mental Tests for the Selection of University Students" (1925),[13] and "Report on the Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French" (1933).[14]

Rogers was elected to the board of trustees at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1919.[2] She was a member of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and represented the AAUW at the International Federation of University Women in 1932.[4] She was also a member of the American Psychological Association, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Progressive Education Association.[4]

Personal life

Agnes Low Rogers died in Craichie, Scotland, in 1943, aged 58 years.[7][4]

References

  1. ^ University of St Andrews (1905). The St. Andrews University Calendar for the Year 1906-1907. Printed and published for the Senatus Academicus by William Blackwood and Sons. pp. 276, 288, 290.
  2. ^ a b c Russell, James Earl (March 1919). "Miss Rogers Elected Alumni Trustee". Teachers College Record. 20: 202–203.
  3. ^ Agnes Low Rogers (1918). Experimental Tests of Mathematical Ability and Their Prognostic Value. Teachers College, Columbia university.
  4. ^ a b c d "Dr. Agnes Rogers, Long an Educator". The New York Times. 23 July 1943. p. 17 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "Goucher Professor Gets Post at Smith College". The Baltimore Sun. 18 April 1923. p. 3. Retrieved 30 June 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Named to Bryn Mawr". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 14 March 1925. p. 2. Retrieved 30 June 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "Recent Deaths". Science. 98 (2535): 101–102. 30 July 1943. Bibcode:1943Sci....98..101.. doi:10.1126/science.98.2535.101. ISSN 0036-8075.
  8. ^ Mensenkamp, L. E. (1921). "Tests of Mathematical Ability and Their Prognostic Values: A Discussion of the Rogers Tests". School Science and Mathematics. 21 (2): 150–162. doi:10.1111/j.1949-8594.1921.tb07941.x. ISSN 1949-8594.
  9. ^ "Mental Age of Child New School System". The Washington Post. 25 March 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 30 June 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Rogers, Agnes L. "The Bearing of the New Psychology upon the Teaching of Mathematics" Teachers College Record (September 1916).
  11. ^ Rogers, Agnes Low; Columbia University. Teachers College. Dept. of Kindergarten-First Grade Education (1922). A tentative inventory of habits. University of California Libraries. N.Y. : Teachers College, Columbia University.
  12. ^ The Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. University of Chicago Press. 1923.
  13. ^ Rogers, Agnes L. (1925). "Mental Tests for the Selection of University Students". British Journal of Psychology. General Section. 15 (4): 405–415. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1925.tb00192.x. ISSN 2044-8295.
  14. ^ Rogers, Agnes L.; Clarke, Frances M. (1933). "Report on the Bryn Mawr Test of Ability to Understand Spoken French". The Modern Language Journal. 17 (4): 241. doi:10.2307/315677. JSTOR 315677.
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