Benjamin D. Wood

Benjamin DeKalbe Wood (November 10, 1894 – July 6, 1986) was an American educator, researcher, and director / professor at Columbia University and an expert in the educational field.

Early life

Wood was born in Brownsville, Texas, on November 10, 1894. He attended the Brownsville area schools, Mission High School, and the University of Texas.

Career Wood was a Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In academics, he was a curator of Stephens College, and the chair or director of 20 national education committees. but remained active. In 1969, he was given the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service. He received an honorary doctor degree from Union College in New York, from Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and from Colorado State Teachers College.

Legacy Wood established the Elbenwood Fund for Education Research, the Ben D. Wood Fellowship Economic Fund and the Institute for Learning Technologies Fund. Twenty-six students had qualified through 2009. The Ben D. Wood Paper are held at the Archives of the History of American Psychology in Akron, Ohio.

Works Books published by Wood are: The Measurement of College Work (1921) The Measurement of Law School Work (1924) Columbia Research Bureau American History Test (1926) Motion Pictures in the Classroom (1929) Study of the Relations of Secondary and Higher Education in Pennsylvania (1938) Our Air-age World: A Textbook in Global Geography (1945) Geography of the World (1959)