Generosity of David… and his on-going Legacy

David Krathwohl, impactful scholar and generous by nature, gave a gift fund to Syracuse University’s IDD&E Department several years ago. The fund was intended to provide financial support (stipends) to graduate students who worked with him on scholarly activities.

David Reading Krathwohl passed away at the age of 95 on October 13, 2016. David was a co-author of Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Cognitive Domain, senior author of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Affective Domain, and co-editor with Lorin Anderson of A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s “Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.”  He also wrote Social and Behavioral Science Research, Methods of Educational and Social Science Research: An Integrated Approach, How to Prepare a Research Proposal, and, with co-author Nick L. Smith, How to Prepare a Dissertation Proposal.

Every summer, and sometimes throughout the academic year, the David Krathwohl endowed fund is used to provide IDD&E students with stipends to work on research activities. In the summer of 2016, several graduate students were supported for work on the RIDLR project. Each of these students were involved in developing concept papers to move RIDLR forward. The results of this work can be seen in the concept papers posted at: https://ridlr.syr.edu/publications/  and hopefully soon in various journals. David’s fund will be instrumental in getting RIDLR off and running… we thank you for your generosity!

There are many wonderful stories about how David Krathwohl impacted the lives of those who knew him. Read excerpts from a few messages sent to us over the past few months. If you have other stories you would like to share about times with David, please let us know.