Arthur A. Lumsdaine

**Arthur Allen Lumsdaine** (1913–1989) was an American applied psychologist who researched the use of media and programmed learning. Art Lumsdaine served as a soldier in the U.S. Army in World War II. He returned to take a PhD in psychology at Stanford University (awarded 1949).

Service in the Army showed him the crucial role played by training in any large army conscripted from the general population. Lumsdaine’s main work was on the effectiveness of media for training and education. He also worked on the experimental investigation of attitude change.
He played a leading part in the post-World War II wave of experimental psychologists who worked on the principles of education and training. Lumsdaine saw the potential of teaching machines and programmed instruction and helped their development.
Art was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as of the American Psychological Association (APA). He served as a member of the APA's Board of Scientific Affairs (1967–1970), was President of the Division of Educational Psychology (1968–1969), and was an Associate Editor of _Contemporary Psychology_ for eight years.

## Main works

- Lumsdaine A.A. 1947. Experimental research and the improvement of teaching films. _Educational Screen_ **26**, 254/5.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1949. _Ease of learning with pictorial and verbal symbols_. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
- Hovland C.I; Lumsdaine A.A. & Sheffield F.D. 1949. _Experiments on mass communication_. Princeton University Press.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1953. Audio-visual research in the U.S. Air Force. _AV Communication Review_ **1**, 76–90.
- May M.A. & Lumsdaine A.A.  1958. _Learning from films_. Yale University Press.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1959. Partial and more complete automation of teaching in group and individual learning situations.  In E.H. Galanter (ed) _Automated teaching: the state of the art_. New York: Wiley, 147–166.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1959. Teaching machines and self-instructional materials. _AV Communication Review_ **7**, 163–181.
- Lumsdaine A.A. & Glaser R. (eds) 1960. _Teaching machines and programmed learning: a source book_. Washington DC: National Education Association.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1961. Some differences in approach to the programming of instruction. In Lysaught J.P. (ed) _Programmed learning: evolving principles and industrial applications_. Ann Arbor: Foundation for Research on Human Behavior, 37–52.
- Lumsdaine A.A. (ed) 1961. _Student response in programmed instruction: a symposium_. Washington DC: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, publication #943.
- Lumsdaine A.A. & Roshal S.M. 1962. _Experimental research on educational media_. University of California Press.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1962, published 1965. Experimental research on instructional devices and materials. In Glaser R. (ed) _Training research and education_. New York: Wiley, 247–294.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1963. Instruments and media of instruction. In Gage N.L. (ed) _Handbook of research on teaching_. A project of the American Educational Research Association. Chicago: Rand McNally, 583–682.
- Lumsdaine A.A. 1965. Assessing the effectiveness of instructional programs. In Glaser R. (ed) _Teaching machines and programmed learning II: data and directions_. Washington DC: National Education Association, 267–320.
- Wittrock M.C. & Lumsdaine A.A. 1977. Instructional psychology. In Rosenzweig M.R. & Porter L.W. (eds) _Annual review of psychology_, **28**. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews.