E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award is given to living recipients, for career achievements (not for one or a few excellent pieces of research), for research in educational psychology (rather than psychology in general or education in general), and for original, scientific, empirically-based research, including meta-analysis research (rather than for textbooks or interpretive reviews). Additionally, the award should be for research in the best tradition of educational psychology. That is, the award should be for original, scientific, empirically-based research that contributes significantly to knowledge, theory, or practice in educational psychology.

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