Pilliner, Albert E G, 1909-2003 (lecturer and educational researcher, Moray House College of Education)

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Contains letters from contemporaries, colleagues, friends, and former students including: Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, Prof John MacMurray, Sir Thomson Buston Robson, Sir James Learmonth, Sir Edward Appleton, Sir Edmund Whittaker, and Professor Edwin Bidwell Wilson. The letters recall Thomson's life and work, and what he meant to the sender. In many cases, the letters have annotations by Lady Thomson giving biographical information about the sender and their relationship to...

Scope and Contents Godfrey Thomson Unit Report titled End-of-course assessment procedures for undergraduates in the University of Edinburgh, with separate booklet containing tables, Gerda Siann, and Albert Pilliner, c1960s Typescript by the Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research titled Examining English as a foreign language, specimen test items,...

Scope and Contents Letters relating to Pilliner's appointment, April 1949; Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1965; Publications authored by Pilliner, 1958-1978; Publications collected by Pilliner, 1968-2003; Report to UNESCO, 1961 Reports to the British Council, 1964-1983; Material regarding the Godfrey Thomson unit,...

Scope and Contents All of the photographs apart from one depict a visit Pilliner made to Athens, Greece, in 1976 showing him both addressing an audience and being a part of it. Four of these photographs are originals, and three are copies from a later date. The other photograph is dated 1980 and shows Pilliner in conversation with an unidentified individual. It is not clear where they are.

Scope and Contents The notebooks are partially filled, and contain calculations and notes under headings including: The relation between two variables; Calculation of regression co-efficients; Regression from a correlation grid; Spearman's rank correlation method; Significance of Correlation Coefficients; Standard Errors of Correlation...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Letters relating to Pilliner's appointment, April 1949; Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1965; Publications authored by Pilliner, 1958-1978; Publications collected by Pilliner, 1968-2003; Report to UNESCO, 1961 Reports to the British Council, 1964-1983; Material regarding the Godfrey Thomson unit,...

Scope and Contents Evaluation of English Attainment in Israel, A E G. Pilliner, October 1964; A visit to three Northern Countries [Sweden, Finland, Denmark], A E G. Pilliner, June 1973; Assessment - Principles and practice with special reference to education in Pakistan, A E G. Pilliner, October 1973; ...

Scope and Contents The Rescaling of Teachers' Estimates, A E G Pilliner, The British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 1958; Zero Error in Moray House Verbal Reasoning Tests, British Journal of Educational Psychology, A E G Pilliner, J Sutherland, and E G Taylor, 1960; ...

Scope and Contents Copy of the Scottish Educational Journal containing an article regarding the Godfrey Thomson Unit's commission to create a new battery of tests for younger primary school children titled Institute to sponsor new reading Test, 1968; Copy of the University of Edinburgh Bulletin containing a summary of the University...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Letters relating to Pilliner's appointment, April 1949; Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1965; Publications authored by Pilliner, 1958-1978; Publications collected by Pilliner, 1968-2003; Report to UNESCO, 1961 Reports to the British Council, 1964-1983; Material regarding the Godfrey Thomson unit,...