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Dr. Frederic (Fritz) Kuder passed away at his home on Sanibel Island, Florida, on April 2, 2000, at the age of 96. He described his career as dedicated to helping young people make satisfying career choices on the basis of a systematic survey of their interests. To this end he developed four different interest inventories, published in seven editions. Over a span of 60 years, they have been taken by more than a hundred million people in the U.S., Europe, and South America. He was also the author of several important articles on the measurement of interests, summed up in a 1977 book,Activity Interests and Occupational Choice. His Kuder-Richardson formulas, developed in 1937 to assess the reliability of scales, continue to be widely used today. He was a founding member and the second president of the (now) Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association; cofounder of Personnel Psychology, and founder and editor of Educational and Psychological Measurement.
Dr. Kuder was honored by the Ohio State University's Centennial Achievement Award. He was the recipient of the E. K. Strong Gold Medal for his contributions to interest measurement, and the Leona Tyler Award for...