Shizuhiko Nishisato, University of Toronto
Reminiscing controversies over joint graphical display in quantification
Career Award for Lifetime Achievement
about the speaker
Born on June 9, 1935 in Sapporo, Japan. BA and MA in
experimental psychology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
Japan. Ph.D. in psychometrics, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, N.C. with thesis “Minimum entropy clustering of
test items” (Supervisor R. Darrell Bock).
1966, Research associate, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada.
1967-2000, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE),
University of Toronto.
[ Assistant Professor (1967-1969), Associate Professor
(1969-1971), Chairman of the Department of Measurement and
Evaluation (1971-1976), Professor (1976-2000), Professor Emeritus
(2000 to date)].
Psychometric Society (President, Editor of Psychometrika,
Trustee)
American Statistical Association (Fellow)
Classification Society of North America (Trustee)
International Federation of Classification Societies (Chair of
the Awards Committee)
Japanese Classification Society (Fellow, Life-long achievement
award)
Japanese Behaviormetric Society (Honorary member, Life-long
achievement award, publication award)
German Classification Society(GfKl) (Editorial Board for Studies
in Classification, for some 20 years)
Metropolitan Toronto Japanese Family Services (President,
Volunteer of the Year Award from the Government of Ontario)
University of North Carolina Psychology Alumni Association
(Distinguished Alumnus Award).
Career outputs: 18 books, over 200 journal papers.