Edinburgh -- Scotland
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence between Thomson and Derrick Lawley regarding calculating a decline in intelligence, 19 Dec 1945-20 Dec 1945
Thomson and Lawley discuss potential problems with the calculations, looking at issues such as the validity of calculating the average family intelligence from one year group.
Thomson's letter is written on the reverse of 4 A5 copies of a supplementary sheet regarding the training of music teachers, briefly alluding to necessary qualifications and course of training.
Correspondence between Thomson and Derrick Lawley regarding differences in IQ between two successive generations, 21 Oct 1945 - 23 Oct 1945
Inaugural lecture, 1925
Letter from Thomson to Hector regarding the presentation of his portrait with invitation and newspaper cuttings from the event, 12 Nov 1950
Includes letters to and about Thomson regarding his life, work, and career from a variety of correspondents including Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Edward Lee Thorndike, Sir James Duff, Carlos Paton Blacker, David Glass, and Derrick Lawley.
Letter to Derrick Lawley from Thomson regarding Factor Analysis and Lawley's paper on the subject, 5 Oct 1941
The letter is written on the reverse of preliminary notices for the 12th International Congress of Psychology.
Opening lecture for the Training, Theory and Practice of Education course, 8 Oct 1930
Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson
Papers of Professor Walter Ledermann
The collection largely consists of letters from Godfrey Thomson to Ledermann. Many are highly mathematical in content, containing formulae and mathematical notation, though they also regard social events and contain enquiries from Thomson with regards to the safety of Ledermann's family throughout the war.
Study Groups, c1930s
The lecture outlines the aims and purposes of working in a study group and the expectation that each group would study a subject and present it over the course of a lecture to the remainder of the class. Thomson provides guidelines and suggestions for how this should best be done. He also highlights the benefits subsequent wide reading and knowledge will bring to the students.