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Kit Carson County Pioneers:

Carl A. and Luella (Roland) Fredericksen, 9 South 50 West



In 1910 Kit Carson County, Carl Fredericksen is farming, 29, Head Louella Fredericksen 27 Wife, Lloyd Fredericksen 4 Son, all three born in Iowa, and Norman Fredericksen 1 Son born in Colorado.

Carl claimed a quarter in section 25, 9S 50W in 1913, and another in 1914.

In 1920 Fairbury, Nebraska, Carl Frederickson is 39, a helper in a nursery, Luella Frederickson 38 Wife, Lloyd Frederickson 13 Son, and Norman Fredericksen 9 Son.

Carl Anaeus Frederiksen BIRTH 9 Oct 1880 Avoca, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA DEATH 11 Sep 1969 (aged 88) Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA BURIAL Fairbury Cemetery Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA MEMORIAL ID 106390614.

Carl A. Frederiksen of 1205 A street, Fairbury, Neb., died in a local hospital Sept. 11, 1969 at the age of 88 years, 11 months and 2 days.
One of the five children of Soren Frederiksen and Gertrude M. Anderson Frederiksen, was born Oct. 9, 1880 at Avoca, Pottawattomie county, Iowa.
He was married to Luella Belle Roland of Hancock, Iowa on Oct. 5, 1904 and to them three children were born.
As a youth Carl was employed in Avoca as hotel clerk and as a jeweler's trainee. Later he moved to nearby Hancock, where he was employed by a general store. Later he went to work for Charles Roland, a former Fairburian in a similar line of business, where he met an married Mr. Roland's daughter.
His high adventure was moving to Colorado with his wife and first son to homestead on a half section of land in Kit Carson county, near Seibert. After proving up on the homestead, the family, now numbering one more, moved to Fairbury where his wife's father had moved in the interim, and settled in the home he occupied at the time of his death.
During most of the years he lived in Fairbury, Mr. Frederiksen was employed by Fairbury Nurseries.
His parents, wife, a son, Kenneth, age three, two brothers, William and Harry, and two sisters, Nina Carr and Florence Bentall, preceded him in death.
Mr. Frederiksen was a long-time member of the United Methodist church and for many years and in the church choir and was a member of the men's quartet. He was also active in the Senior Citizens.
Surviving are two sons, Loyd C. of Washington, D.C., and Norman of Princeton, N.J., and two grandsons, Carl H. of Berkley, Calif., and John R. of Cambridge, Mass.
Funeral services were Sept. 15 at 10:30 a.m. in the United Methodist church with Rev. Herbert W. Jackman officiating. Pallbearers were: Lester Seggerman, C.C. Bailey, Emil Wineinger, Alvin Diggs, Scott Hiatt, and Ernesdt Leonard. Internment was in the Fairbury Cemetery.

Luella Belle Roland Frederiksen BIRTH 25 Oct 1881 Center Point, Linn County, Iowa, USA DEATH 28 Oct 1964 (aged 83) Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA BURIAL Fairbury Cemetery Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA MEMORIAL ID 106390444.

Mrs. Carl A. Frederiksen of 1205 A street, Fairbury, Neb., died in a local hospital Oct. 28, 1964 at the age of 83 years and 3 days.
Luella Belle, a daughter of Charles and Sarah Roland, was born Oct. 25, 1881 at Cedar Point, Iowa. Her childhood was spent at Troy Mills in Linn county, Iowa where she attended school.
On Oct. 5, 1904, she was married to Carl A. Frederiksen at Hancock, Iowa and the couple recently observed their 60th wedding anniversary.
She was a member of the Methodist church, joining Fairbury's congregation in 1912. For 12 years she was superintendent of the Primary department. sang in the choir and was a valued member of the church in many ways. She was a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service, and the Goodwill Sunday School class.
Surviving are her husband, Carl of Fairbury; two sons, Loyd of Washington D.C., and Norman of Princeton, N.J., brother, Ivan Roland of Tulsa, Okla., two grandsons and a number of nieces and nephews.
Preceding her in death were an infant son, her parents, and two sisters.
Funeral services were Saturday morning in the Methodist church with the Pastor Donald Littrell officiating. Mrs. Dale Mooberry of Superior and Mrs. William C. Nuckolls sang and Mrs. Frank Hall was organist. Burial was in the Fairbury cemetery.
Pallbearers were C.O. Iverson, Ivan Sleigh, Carl Dayton, J.E. Douce, J.W. Winslow and Otto Traeger.

LLOYD
Lloyd, 30, born in Hancock, Pottawatamie Co., Iowa, residing in Fairbury, Neb., married Adeline Boening on 19 Jun 1935 in St. Ansgar, Iowa.

He was living in Marshall, Missouri in 1935, and in 1940 Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Lloyd C. Frederickson is a telegrapher, 34, Adeline Frederickson 28 Wife.

CLARENCE

Clarence Kenneth Frederiksen BIRTH 10 Feb 1914 Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA DEATH 10 May 1917 (aged 3) Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA BURIAL Fairbury Cemetery Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska, USA MEMORIAL ID 106390135

"Little Clarence Fredrickson, (sic) son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fredrickson, (sic) residing at 1205 H street, passed away Thursday, May 10th. His death resulted from complication of the measles, pneumonia setting in after the measles were nearly over.
The child was three years old a the time of his death. He was buried at Fairbury last Saturday, the services being conducted by Rev. R. N. Orrill."

NORMAN

Norman O. Frederiksen, 28, born in Siebert Colorado, Residence Place: Syracuse, New York, married Anna Margaret Miller on 27 Dec 1936 in Des Moines, Iowa.

Norman, born February 9, 1909, died in April 1998.

Norman 'Fritz' Frederiksen was an American research psychologist and leading proponent of performance assessment, an approach to educational and occupational testing that focused on the use of tasks similar to the ones individuals actually encounter in real classroom and work environments. In keeping with the philosophy underlying this approach, Frederiksen was a critic of multiple-choice testing, which he felt negatively influenced school curricula and classroom practice.[1] Much of his research centered upon creating and evaluating alternative approaches to the measurement of knowledge and skill, which he pursued over a 40-year career at Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ. For his work, he received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Knowledge in 1984 and, by the time of his retirement from ETS, had attained the position of Distinguished Scientist, the organization's highest-ranking scientific title at that time.[2]

Norman Frederiksen was born on February 9, 1909, on a farm near Siebert, Colorado, and grew up in Fairbury, Nebraska, to which his family had moved.[2] He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1927 to 1931, graduating with an AB degree in psychology. He moved to the University of Nebraska in 1931 to accept an assistantship and pursue a master's degree. At Nebraska, he studied under, and published with, J. P. Guilford, who was later to be widely recognized for his multi-faceted theory of human abilities. Upon completion of his master's, Frederiksen moved to Syracuse University to study under Floyd Allport, with whom he also published and who is today considered the founder of social psychology. Upon graduation, Frederiksen left Syracuse in the fall of 1937 to join the faculty of Princeton University.

At Princeton University, Frederiksen met Harold Gulliksen, a professor and pioneering psychometrician, under whom he worked during war-time leave on a project concerning the selection and training of naval personnel (1942–1947).[2] Frederiksen began his association with ETS, where Gulliksen also was affiliated, soon after the naval project ended, authoring the second research report released by the fledgling testing organization.[3] He remained on the faculty of Princeton University, however, until 1955, rising to the rank of associate professor.

At ETS, Frederiksen’s research centered on assessment innovation, in particular on devising ways to measure complex problem solving in education and in occupational settings, often through the use of "constructed-response" (i.e., free response) and performance tasks. The approach he took to test design and validation was grounded in theory, particularly in trying to understand the cognitive processes brought to bear in real-world problem-solving and how to measure those processes in test situations.
Frederiksen's work on performance assessment included co-authoring an early chapter on its use in education in the first edition of Educational Measurement, edited by E. F. Linquist, and published in 1951.[4] He invented the “in-basket test,” which he described in a book of that title, published by the American Psychological Association in 1957.[5] The test presented the examinee with a collection of memos, mail, telephone messages, and the like, which needed to be prioritized and acted upon. Today, the in-basket test is used throughout the world to assess applicants for managerial jobs in a wide variety of industries.
Frederiksen also applied his innovative techniques to the measurement of creativity, for which he developed the Formulating Hypotheses test.[6] Each item in the test presented a description of a situation and asked the examinee to generate as many causes for that situation as he or she could. In a series of research studies using the test, Frederiksen and his colleagues demonstrated that this open-ended technique was able to measure divergent thinking skills that were considerably different from the convergent ones tapped by multiple-choice versions of the test.[7]
Frederiksen’s work in the measurement of problem solving and creativity led to his publication in 1984 of a now-classic article, “The Real Test Bias: Influences of Testing on Teaching and Learning.”[1] The article’s thesis was that multiple-choice formats measured only a subset of the skills important for success in educational environments and that the heavy dependence in educational testing on that format had a narrowing effect on classroom instruction. That theoretical position motivated much of his research and it is one that continues to motivate research and development throughout the field of educational testing today.
Frederiksen was president of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division of Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics from 1970 to 1971. He died in Princeton, NJ in 1998.[8]
In 2010, the ETS board of trustees created the Norman O. Frederiksen Chair in Assessment Innovation. The resolution establishing the chair called for it to be filled by "a highly accomplished researcher and scholar whose work builds on and expands the academic and intellectual traditions exemplified by the achievements of Dr. Norman O. Frederiksen."[9] The first and current holder of the chair is Randy E. Bennett.

Margaret Frederiksen Birth Date: 28 Jul 1912 Birth Place: Moulton, Iowa, USA Death Date: 21 Nov 2008 Death Place: New Jersey, USA



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