Improving Inquiry in Social Science: A Volume in Honor of Lee J. Cronbach
by Snow; Richard E.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1990-12-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Straight Thinking | p. 1 |
| References | p. 10 |
| Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories Are Often Uninterpretable | p. 13 |
| References | p. 58 |
| Macropsychology and Micropsychology: Natural Categories and Natural Kinds | p. 61 |
| References | p. 72 |
| Test Validity and Invalidity Reconsidered | p. 75 |
| References | p. 106 |
| Test Analysis with the Person Characteristic Function: Implications for Defining Abilities | p. 109 |
| Introduction | p. 109 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 142 |
| References | p. 142 |
| An Approach to Multivariate Generalizability of MMPI Profiles | p. 145 |
| Introduction | p. 145 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 157 |
| References | p. 158 |
| Psychology and Methodology of Response Styles | p. 161 |
| References | p. 197 |
| Problems in Assuming the Comparability of Pretest and Posttest in Autoregressive and Growth Models | p. 201 |
| References | p. 217 |
| A Longitudinal Approach to ATI Research: Models for Individual Growth and Models for Individual Differences in Response to Intervention | p. 221 |
| Appendix | p. 246 |
| The Concept of Aptitude | p. 249 |
| References | p. 280 |
| Is There Any Future for Intelligence? | p. 285 |
| References | p. 303 |
| Tyler's Behavioral Objectives: Background Sources, Early Use, and Some Stream-Offs | p. 305 |
| Introduction | p. 305 |
| References | p. 324 |
| Developing Tests to Assist in the Improvement of Education | p. 325 |
| In Summary | p. 332 |
| An Intelligent Tutoring System for Exploring Principles of Economics | p. 333 |
| Introduction | p. 333 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 359 |
| References | p. 360 |
| p. 360 | |
| In Illinois and in Japan: Lee Cronbach as a Mentor | p. 367 |
| """"I'm Sorry But . . .""""; Our Intellectual Heritage From LJC | p. 375 |
| Introduction | p. 375 |
| Methodological Studies--A Personal Retrospective | p. 385 |
| References | p. 398 |
| Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography | p. 401 |
| Author Index | p. 411 |
| Subject Index | p. 417 |
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