Bruce Tuckman

Bruce W. Tuckman (1938 to 2016) was an educational psychologist, professor of educational psychology at The Ohio State University and founding director of its Walter E. Dennis Learning Center. He earned his bachelor degree in psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his master and doctoral degrees at Princeton University, and held posts at Rutgers University, Baruch College and Florida State University before Ohio State. He wrote 18 books and more than 100 articles on motivation, cognition, instructional design and measurement. In the 1960s he developed the stages of group development, summed up as forming, storming, norming and performing, which is still taught and used worldwide. He was a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association.