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Call Number: SC0238
Creator:
Cronbach, Lee J. (Lee Joseph),
1916-2001
Title: Lee J. Cronbach papers
Dates: 1940-2001
Physical Description:
8 Linear feet
Summary: 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.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
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.
Block, Jack, 1924-2010
Cohen, Marshall.
Cronbach, Janet
Cronbach, Lee J. (Lee Joseph), 1916-2001
Feldhusen, John Frederick, 1926-
Gates, Arthur I. (Arthur Irving),
1890-1972.
Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick),
1927-2003
Stanford University. School of
Education--Faculty
Stanley, Julian C.
Todd, Vivian Edmiston.
Tyler, Ralph Winfred, 1902-
United States. Office of Naval Research. Branch
Office,London.
Educational accountability.
Educational psychology.
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Psychological tests.