Julian C. Stanley

SMPY’s Founder

Julian C. Stanley, Peabody College (1949)	Stanley while at Johns Hopkins University.

 

Julian C. Stanley was an American psychologist whose research focused on understanding and developing educational practices for academically gifted and talented children. He developed an innovative talent search model where above-grade-level testing was used to identify gifted students, and he promoted subject-level acceleration as an educational best practice within the field of gifted education.

Dr. Stanley began his academic career in 1949 at George Peabody College for Teachers (now Peabody College at Vanderbilt University) and founded the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth at Johns Hopkins University in 1971.

 

For more information:

READ

Benbow, C. P., & Lubinski, D. (2006). Julian C. Stanley, Jr. (1918-2005). American Psychologist, 61(3), 251-252. View in PDF

“In appreciation: Julian Stanley.” (2005, October). The Observer, https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/in-appreciation-julian-stanley

Stanley, J. C. (2000). Helping students learn only what they don’t already know. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 6(1), 216-222. View in PDF

Wainer, H. & Robinson, D. (2006). Profiles in research: Julian Cecil Stanley. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 31(2), 231-240. View in PDF

 

WATCH

Click below to watch an interview conducted by Camilla Benbow as part of the 2002 International Society for Intelligence Research Conference.

 

 

The below recordings were taken at Dr. Stanley’s Festschrift (San Francisco, 1992).

There are 19 total videos in our playlist, which begins with the after dinner keynote by Thomas J. Bouchard and Julian C. Stanley’s closing reflections at the end of his Festschrift.

To watch a different video in the series, either (a) click on a speaker’s name (below) or (b) click on the playlist icon in the top right corner of the video screen and then select the video you wish to view.

*Note. The audio for some of these recordings is distorted due to issues with the original source material. For ease of viewing, the files have been categorized below as having clear or distorted audio; however, there is variability within the “distorted audio” classification. Some distortions are severe and/or lengthy, while other video files have only minor and/or brief audio distortions.*

Clear Audio: Thomas J. Bouchard and Julian C. Stanley N. L. Gage Lee J. Cronbach Lloyd G. Humphreys Herbert J. Klausmeier Daniel P. Keating Betsy J. Becker

Distorted Audio: Richard Snow and Michelle Ennis Nancy M. Robinson Lynn W. Glass Robert A. Gordon Arthur R. Jensen Ellis B. Page and Timothy Z. Keith Joyce Van Tassel Baska John F. Feldhusen Carl E. Bereiter Barbara A. Kerr Arnold E. Ross A. Harry Passow

 

 

First Decade of SMPY Research Findings Under Julian C. Stanley’s Directorship

Stanley, J. C., Keating, D. P., & Fox, L. H. (Eds.). (1974). Mathematical talent: Discovery, description, and development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Keating, D. P. (Ed.). (1976). Intellectual talent: Research and development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Stanley, J. C., George, W. C., & Solano, C. H. (Eds.). (1977). The gifted and the creative: A fifty year perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

George, W. C., Cohn, S. J., & Stanley, J. C. (Eds.). (1979). Educating the gifted: Acceleration and enrichment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Fox, L. H., Brody, L., & Tobin, D. (Eds.). (1980). Women and the mathematics mystique. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Benbow, C. P., & Stanley, J. C. (Eds.). (1983). Academic precocity: Aspects of its development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.