Bruce Tuckman
{{Short description|American psychologist (1938–2016)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Bruce Tuckman
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|11|24}}
| birth_place = New York, U.S.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|03|13|1938|11|24}}
| death_place =
| fields = Educational psychology
Group dynamics
| workplaces = {{ublist | Naval Medical Research Institute |Dennis Learning Center |Ohio State University}}
| alma_mater = {{ublist |Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Princeton University}}
| known_for = Tuckman's stages of group development
}}
Bruce Wayne Tuckman (November 24, 1938 – March 13, 2016) was an American psychological researcher who carried out
research into the theory of group dynamics.{{Cite web |url=https://inspire.ehe.osu.edu/2016/05/12/in-memoriam/ |title=In Memoriam |date=2013 |website=Ohio State University |access-date=2017-06-13 |archive-date=2020-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809195002/https://inspire.ehe.osu.edu/2016/05/12/in-memoriam/ |url-status=dead }} In 1965, he published a theory generally known as "Tuckman's stages of group development".
According to his theory, there are four phases of group development, they are: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing. In 1977, he and co-author Mary Ann Jensen added a fifth stage, named Adjourning.
Tuckman was also known for his research on college students' procrastination and development of the Tuckman Procrastination Scale (1991).
He served as professor of educational psychology at Ohio State University, where he founded and directed the Walter E. Dennis Learning Center with the mission of providing students of all backgrounds with strategies for college success that enabled them to enter, excel in, and complete programs of post-secondary education. He was awarded fellowships by both the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association.
To teach students strategies for succeeding in college, he co-authored the textbook, Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success, with Dennis A. Abry and Dennis R. Smith.
Educational background
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 1960 graduated with B.S. Psychology. Born in Surrey.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
- Princeton University: 1962 graduated with M.A. Psychology
- Princeton University: 1963 graduated with Ph.D. Psychology
- In 1991 Tuckman researched and developed a 32-item procrastination scale, which measured the degree to which a person procrastinated.
- Professor Tuckman was also an avid runner who wrote the novel Long Road to Boston (1988).Goodreads.com, [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1580657.Long_Road_to_Boston Long Road to Boston]
Bibliography
Tuckman wrote 18 books and over 100 articles, including:
- Tuckman, Bruce W. (1965) [http://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Group_Dynamics/Tuckman_1965_Developmental_sequence_in_small_groups.pdf 'Developmental sequence in small groups'], published in Psychological Bulletin, 63, pages 384–399, 1965
- Tuckman, Bruce W. and Jensen, Mary Ann C. (1977) [http://faculty.wiu.edu/P-Schlag/articles/Stages_of_Small_Group_Development.pdf 'Stages of Small-Group Development Revisited'], Group & Organization Studies, 2(4),419–427.
- Tuckman, B., [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0013164491512022 The Development and Concurrent Validity of the Procrastination Scale], Educational and Psychological Measurement, Volume 51, issue 2.
References
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Sources
- Smith, M. K. (2005). ‘Bruce W. Tuckman – forming, storming, norming and performing in groups, the encyclopaedia of informal education. [http://infed.org/mobi/bruce-w-tuckman-forming-storming-norming-and-performing-in-groups/. Retrieved: 2014-07-25].
External links
- [http://www.infed.org/thinkers/tuckman.htm Bruce W. Tuckman]
- [http://dennislearningcenter.osu.edu/about-dlc/founding-director/ DLC: Founding Director]
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