Lee J. Cronbach papers, 1940-2001

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Abstract:
Correspondence, memoranda, articles, proposals, notes, and other files relating to his teaching and committee work and several major publications, including PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AND PERSONNEL DECISIONS and TOWARD REFORM OF PROGRAM EVALUATION. Correspondents include Patrick Moynihan, Jack Block, Marshall Cohen, John Feldhusen, Arthur I. Gates, Julian C. Stanley, Vivian Edmiston Todd, and Ralph W. Tyler. Collection also includes reports compiled for the US Office of Naval Research in London on psychological work and research being done in Europe, 1955-56.
Extent:
8.25 Linear Feet
Language:
Undetermined
Preferred citation:

Lee J. Cronbach Papers (SC0238). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Correspondence, memoranda, articles, proposals, notes, and other files relating to his teaching and committee work and several major publications, including PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AND PERSONNEL DECISIONS and TOWARD REFORM OF PROGRAM EVALUATION. Correspondents include Patrick Moynihan, Jack Block, Marshall Cohen, John Feldhusen, Arthur I. Gates, Julian C. Stanley, Vivian Edmiston Todd, and Ralph W. Tyler. Collection also includes reports compiled for the US Office of Naval Research in London on psychological work and research being done in Europe, 1955-56.

Biographical / historical:

Lee J. Cronbach made major contributions in the fields of educational psychology and psychological testing. He earned his bachelor's degree at Fresno State College, 1934, his master's at the University of California-Berkeley, 1937, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago, 1940. He taught at the State College of Washington, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford faculty in 1964, where he was named Vida Jacks Professor of Education in 1967. His research interests were measurement theory, program evaluation, and instruction. He died in 2001.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Professor Cronbach, 1981, and Janet Cronbach, 2003.
Physical location:
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This collection is open for research.

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Preferred citation:

Lee J. Cronbach Papers (SC0238). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
(650) 725-1022
specialcollections@stanford.edu
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