This volume celebrates Lee J. Cronbach's considerable contributions to the methodology of social and behavioral science. Comprised of chapters written by colleagues and contemporaries of the highly influential scholar, it offers a range of ideas, perspectives, and new approaches to improving social science inquiry.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2012

ISBN

9781136467721

Edition

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Education General

Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
1. Straight Thinking
2. Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories Are Often Uninterpretable
3. Macropsychology and Micropsychology: Natural Categories and Natural Kinds
4. Test Validity and Invalidity Reconsidered
5. Test Analysis with the Person Characteristic Function: Implication for Defining Abilities
6. An Approach to Multivariate Generalizability of MMPI Profiles
7. Psychology and Methodology of Response Styles
8. Problems in Assuming the Comparability of Pretest and Posttest in Autoregressive and Growth Models
9. A Longitudinal Approach to ATI Research: Models for Individual Growth and Models for Individual Differences in Response to Intervention
10. The Concept of Aptitude
11. Is There Any Future for Intelligence?
12. Tyler's Behavioral Objectives: Background Sources, Early Use, and Some Stream-Offs
13. Developing Tests to Assist in the Improvement of Education
14. An Intelligent Tutoring System for Exploring Principles of Economics
15. In Illinois and in Japan: Lee Cronbach as a Mentor
16.“I'm Sorry But. . . “; Our Intellectual Heritage From LJC
17. Methodological Studies—A Personal Retrospective
Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography of L. J. Cronbach
Author Index
Subject Index