Guy Loraine Bond was an educational psychologist

Educational psychology

Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Educational psychology is concerned with how students learn and develop, often focusing...

 who made significant contributions to research in reading and literacy. Bond's work with Robert Dykstra on The First Grade Studies is perhaps the most famous of his contributions. His areas of study were reading, elementary education, and curriculum education psychology.

Born in Coupeville, Washington

Coupeville, Washington

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, Bond was educated at Western Washington State College and the Universities of Alabama

Alabama

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 and Columbia

Columbia University

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. Bond was a professor at State College

State University of New York at Fredonia

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, Fredonia

Fredonia, New York

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, New York

New York

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 from 1936-1937. He was a professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

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from 1942 to 1971, where an endowed faculty chair was established in his name.

Publications

• Reading Difficulties: Their Diagnosis and Correction by Guy L. Bond and Miles A. Tinker, 1951
• The Cooperative Resesarch Program in First-Grade Reading Instruction (Bond & Dykstra, 1967)
• Developmental reading in high school by Guy L. Bond and Eva Bond, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1941
• Review of Teaching the child to Read by Nina Jacob, Guy L. Bond and Eva Bond, "The Elementary School Journal", Mar 1944, vol 44, no 7, p430-431
• Teaching the child to read by Guy L. Bond and Eva Bond Wagner, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1958

External links

• The First Grade Studies
• Literacy’s legacy, College of Education and Human Development Centennial Magazine, Winter 2006