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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Lee J. Cronbach papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0238
Physical Description:
8.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1940-2001
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.
Physical Location: Special Collections and University
Archives materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more
information on paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Professor Cronbach, 1981, and Janet Cronbach, 2003.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Lee J. Cronbach Papers (SC0238). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Psychological tests.
Educational accountability.
Educational psychology.
Gates, Arthur I. (Arthur Irving)
Feldhusen, John Frederick
United States. Office of Naval Research. Branch Office,
London.
Cronbach, Lee J. (Lee Joseph)
Cronbach, Janet
Cohen, Marshall.
Block, Jack
Tyler, Ralph Winfred
Stanley, Julian C.
Todd, Vivian Edmiston.
Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick)
Stanford University. Graduate School of Education.
Faculty