The Future of Measurements of Abilities II1

T he title of this paper was borrowed from on published exactly twenty-five years ago, February 1948, in the British Journal of Educational Psychology.2 The author was an American educational psychologist, Prof. Edward L. Thorndike, then near the close of a long, productive, distinguished career. The educational profession owes a great debt to the formative leadership of E. L. Thorndike in educational research and educational measurement. That would be