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Emmett A. Betts
Emmett A. Betts: A Biographical Sketch
Jerry L. Johns
Emmett A. Betts’ career as an educator and theorist in the teaching of reading began in the 1920s, a time when both psychology and the hard sciences established themselves as essential factors in education.
Betts began his teaching career in 1922 as a director of industrial arts and agriculture in Orient, Iowa. He also served as superintendent of schools in Northboro, Iowa.
Biography of emmett betts
In 1925, he became a school psychologist and principal in Shaker Heights, Ohio. There he brought his psychological training to bear on the development of the Betts Ready to Read Tests, which were designed to determine the preparedness of young children to read.
In 1934 Betts was named director of teacher education at State Teacher’s College in Oswego, New York, and pursued research in reading instruction as the head of the college’s reading clinic. It was at this time that he conducted his first weeklong national institute on reading, whic