Charles Wilfred Valentine (16 August 187926 May 1964) was a British educationalist and psychologist.
He was a student at Cambridge University and there befriended William Gidley Emmett with whom he later co-wrote a book, The Reliability of Examinations in 1932, which questioned the value of traditional testing and helped create a foundation for alternative test methods.
Valentine was President of the British Psychology Society in 1947–48 and became an Honorary Fellow of the Society in 1958.
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