Agnes L. Rogers Explained

Agnes L. Rogers
Birth Name:Agnes Low Rogers
Birth Date:October 28, 1884
Birth Place:Dundee
Death Date:July 16, 1943
Death Place:Craichie
Nationality:Scottish
Occupation:Professor 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.

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. 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. She was also a member of the American Psychological Association, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Progressive Education Association.

Personal life

Agnes Low Rogers died in Craichie, Scotland, in 1943, aged 58 years.

Notes and References

  1. Book: University of St Andrews. The St. Andrews University Calendar for the Year 1906-1907. 1905. Printed and published for the Senatus Academicus by William Blackwood and Sons. 276, 288, 290. en.
  2. March 1919. Miss Rogers Elected Alumni Trustee. Teachers College Record. 20. 202–203. Russell. James Earl.
  3. Book: Agnes Low Rogers. Experimental Tests of Mathematical Ability and Their Prognostic Value. 1918. Teachers College, Columbia university. en.
  4. News: Dr. Agnes Rogers, Long an Educator. July 23, 1943. The New York Times. 17. ProQuest.
  5. News: Goucher Professor Gets Post at Smith College. April 18, 1923. The Baltimore Sun. June 30, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
  6. News: Named to Bryn Mawr. March 14, 1925. The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 30, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.
  7. 1943-07-30. Recent Deaths. Science. en. 98. 2535. 101–102. 10.1126/science.98.2535.101. 0036-8075. 1943Sci....98..101..
  8. Mensenkamp. L. E.. 1921. Tests of Mathematical Ability and Their Prognostic Values: A Discussion of the Rogers Tests. School Science and Mathematics. en. 21. 2. 150–162. 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1921.tb07941.x. 1949-8594.
  9. News: Mental Age of Child New School System. March 25, 1922. The Washington Post. June 30, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.
  10. Rogers, Agnes L. "The Bearing of the New Psychology upon the Teaching of Mathematics" Teachers College Record (September 1916).
  11. Book: A tentative inventory of habits. Rogers. Agnes Low. Columbia University. Teachers College. Dept. of Kindergarten-First Grade Education. 1922. N.Y. : Teachers College, Columbia University. University of California Libraries.
  12. Book: The Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. 1923. University of Chicago Press. en.
  13. Rogers. Agnes L.. 1925. Mental Tests for the Selection of University Students. British Journal of Psychology. General Section. en. 15. 4. 405–415. 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1925.tb00192.x. 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. 10.2307/315677. 315677.