Editing Robert M. Gagné (section)

=== Career ===
His first college teaching job was in 1940, at [[Connecticut College|Connecticut College for Women]].

His initial studies of people were interrupted by [[World War II]]. In the first year of war, at Psychological Research Unit No. 1, [[Maxwell Air Force Base|Maxwell Field]], Alabama, he administered and scored aptitude tests to choose and sort aviation cadets. Thereafter, he was assigned to officer school in [[Miami Beach, Florida|Miami Beach]]. He was commissioned a second lieutenant, and assigned to School of Aviation Medicine, [[Randolph Air Force Base|Randolph Field]], Fort Worth, Texas.

After the war, he held a temporary faculty position at [[Pennsylvania State University]]. He returned to Connecticut College for Women. In 1949, he accepted an offer to join the US Air Force organization that became the Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center, where he was research director of the Perceptual and Motor Skills Laboratory. In 1958, he returned to academia as professor at [[Princeton University]], where his research shifted focus to the learning of problem solving and the learning of mathematics. In 1962, he joined the American Institutes for Research, where he wrote his first book, ''[[Conditions of Learning]]''. He spent additional time in academia at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he worked with graduate students. With W. K. Roher, he presented a paper, "Instructional Psychology", to the Annual Review of Psychology.

In 1969, he found a lasting home at [[Florida State University]]. He collaborated with L. J. Briggs on ''Principles of Learning''. He published the second and third editions of ''The Conditions of Learning''.<ref>[[Rita Richey|Richey, Rita C.]] The Legacy of Robert M. Gagné. 2000. 283-291.</ref>