Gita Wilder, a longtime senior research scientist with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and a visiting lecturer in psychology at Princeton, died of cancer July 21, 2013. She was 76.
Wilder received a bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr in 1958 and a master’s degree from Brown in 1960. She earned a Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton in 1986, after joining ETS in 1964, where she became a director of its Research Survey Center.
In her 34 years at ETS, she worked on a variety of educational programs, including Sesame Street , gender differences in test results, and federally financed parent-child development centers. From 1999 to 2005 she was with the Law School Admission Council, and from 2005 to 2010 she was at the National Association for Law Placement.
From 1987 until she became ill in 2012, Wilder held several adjunct and visiting professorships, including a visiting lectureship in Princeton’s psychology department. She taught in Princeton’s Teacher Preparation Program, mentoring prospective teachers with wit and wisdom. She served for several years on Princeton’s Institutional Review Board.
She is survived by Joseph, her husband of 56 years; three children; and four grandchildren.
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