Background
Keller" was born January 2, 1899, on a farm near Rural Grove, New York and left school at an early age to become a Western Union telegrapher.
Keller" was born January 2, 1899, on a farm near Rural Grove, New York and left school at an early age to become a Western Union telegrapher.
Harvard University; Tufts University.
He taught at Columbia University for 26 years and gave his name to the Keller Plan, also known as Personalized System of Instruction, an individually paced, mastery-oriented teaching method that has had a significant impact on college-level science education system. He died at home, age 97, on February 2, 1996 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Surgery from Tufts in 1926 and an Master of Arts in 1928 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1931, both in psychology, from Harvard.
Keller taught at Colgate from 1931 to 1938 and joined the Columbia faculty as an instructor of psychology in 1938.
He was named assistant professor in 1942, associate professor in 1946 and professor of psychology in 1950. He served as chairman of the department from 1959 to 1962 and became professor emeritus of psychology in 1964.
Students first used it in courses at Columbia College, where the two professors offered two hours of lecture and, for the first time in psychology, four hours of laboratory work a week. Among their experiments, the students observed the responses of white rats to stimuli and rewards and measured human learning by testing people"s ability to remember the pathways of mazes and other sensory processes.
He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association.
Keller"s paper "Goodbye teacher.." issued in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis in 1968 introduced This lead later to "Mastery learning" plan.