- Lee Cronbach
Lee J. Cronbach (1916 - 2001) was an American educational psychologist who made significant contributions to psychological testing and measurement. Born in Fresno,
California , Cronbach received a bachelor's degree from Fresno State College and a master's degree from theUniversity of California, Berkeley . In 1940, he received a doctorate in educational psychology from theUniversity of Chicago . After teaching mathematics and chemistry at Fresno High School, Cronbach took faculty positions at theState College of Washington , the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois, finally settling atStanford University in 1964. Cronbach was the president of theAmerican Psychological Association , president of theAmerican Educational Research Association , and Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.Cronbach is most famous for the development of "
Cronbach's alpha ", a method for determining the reliability of educational and psychological tests. His work on test reliability reached an acme with the creation ofgeneralizability theory , a statistical model for identifying and quantifying the sources of measurement error.ources
Kupermintz, H. (2003). Lee J. Cronbach's contributions to educational psychology. In B. J. Zimmerman and D. H. Schunk (Eds.). "Educational psychology: A century of contributions", pp. 289-302. Mahwah, NJ, US: Erlbaum.
External links
* [http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Cronbach/construct.htm Construct Validity in Psychological Tests] , classic text by Cronbach and Paul E. Meehl 1955
* [http://facultysenate.stanford.edu/memorial_resolutions/Cronbach_Lee_J%20_SenD5290.pdf Stanford Memorial Resolution about Lee Cronbach]
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