Shizuhiko Nishisato, University of Toronto

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.