Description
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.
Background
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.
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Availability
This collection is open for research.