Background
Pressey, Sidney Leavitt was born on December 28, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Edwin Sidney and Orie Belle (Little) Pressey.
Pressey, Sidney Leavitt was born on December 28, 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Edwin Sidney and Orie Belle (Little) Pressey.
Student, University of Minnesota, 1908-1909, Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1912, Master of Arts, Harvard, 1915, Doctor of Philosophy, 1917.
Interne and assistant psychologist, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1915-1917. Research associate, Indiana University, 1917-1921. Assistant professor, Ohio State University, 1921-1926, professor, from 1926.
Visiting professor, summers, University of Utah, Teachers College, Columbia University, University of Hawaii.
Colorado State College, University of Southern California, U. British Columbia. Expert consultant A.G.O. War Department 1943.
Research for Navy on training aids, 1946-1949.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president section 1, 1946), fellow Ohio Academy Science (vice-president and chairman of the section psychological 1949), American Psychological Association (president division on aging, 1946, on teaching, 1948).
Married Luella Winifred Cole, 1918 (divorced 1932). Married second, Alice Margaret Donnelly, 1934.