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JOHN BAUGH was recently a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the National Fair Housing Alliance, where he addressed “Linguistic Profiling and Unequal Access to Fair Housing: Social and Educational Implications.” MIKE COPLAND has stepped down as faculty director of the Prospective Principals Program to become Assistant Professor of Education Leadership and School Renewal at the University of Washington, College of Education, in Seattle. BRUCE THOMPSON has been appointed Interim Director of the Prospective Principals Program. The American Leadership Forum selected LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND as this year’s Exemplary Leader. Chosen for her visionary leadership skills and unique ability to identify and propose creative solutions within the field of education, she spoke to 150 Silicon Valley senior-level business, government, and community leaders at the 11th Annual Exemplary Leader Awards Dinner. She has also recently published the book A Case of Successful Teaching Policy: Connecticut’s Long Term Efforts to Improve Teaching and Learning (with Suzanne Wilson and Barnett Berry) and the article “Steady Work: The Story of Connecticut’s School Reform” in the fall 2001 American Educator. ELLIOT EISNER'S next book, The Arts and Cognition, will be published by Yale University Press. He will deliver the John Dewey lecture at the next American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting to be held in New Orleans, LA and the Ellis Joseph Lecture at the University of Dayton. He delivered a lecture titled, “On the Art of Qualitative Evaluation” at the Institute of Education of the University of London in May, 2001 and a paper titled, “New Horizons in Qualitative Research,” at Tel Aviv University in Israel in September, 2001. DAVID FETTERMAN was selected to facilitate the legislatively appointed Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education in California: Kindergarten through University. The plan will create a coherent, coordinated policy that clarifies who is responsible for each component of the public education system. The plan will also more tightly couple K-12 and higher education policies and reforms.  TERESA LAFRAMBOISE recently became the Director of Training for SUSE’s School and Community-based Counseling Psychology Program. This redesigned Counseling Psychology Program follows the scientist-practitioner model of doctoral training with an emphasis upon adolescents and the contexts that govern adolescent lives (e.g., family, school and community). She has also recently been named a Patron of the Athlone House of Strength, a center for abused and neglected women and children in Paarl, South Africa and is embarking on a suicide and substance abuse prevention project with homeless American Indian youth.MICHAEL KAMIL has recently edited both Methods of Literacy Research: The Methodology Chapters From The Handbook of Reading Research Volume III (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002) and Handbook of Reading Research (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002). He was also invited to attend the White House Assembly on Reading in Washington, D.C. in September. MICHAEL KIRST published the second edition of his book Political Dynamics of American Education, which he co-authored with University of Illinois political science professor Fred Wirt. JOHN KRUMBOLTZ prepared an amicus brief for submission to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case involves an Oklahoma parent whose children were enrolled in a school district that permitted teachers to use peer grading and required students to call out their scores so the teachers could write them in their grade books. His brief supports the parent who objected to this practice and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled in her favor. The Supreme Court is scheduled to make a final ruling on the case this fall. DAN MCFARLAND has published the article “Student Resistance: How the Formal and Informal Organization of Classrooms Facilitate Everyday Forms of Student Defiance” in the November issue of the American Journal of Sociology. He also received a research grant from the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society for the 2001-02 school year. This past June, he and WOODY POWELL were visiting scholars at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico as part of a working group interested in the genesis of organizational forms.  CRAIG PECK is the new Director of the Master’s Program in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education and Acting Assistant Professor of Education. This past June, he graduated from SUSE with a PHD in the History of Education. In addition to the history of education, his research interests also include educational technology .After six years of service as Associate Dean for Academic Services, DENIS PHILLIPS stepped down September 1, 2001. Denis is in residence at the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford this academic year, where he is spending his time reading and working on a project about constructivism in education, philosophy, and psychology. He will return to the SUSE faculty in ’02-03. “It’s been a fruitful association so far,” Denis says of his 27 year affiliation with SUSE, “and I feel fortunate to be departing my administrative role with most of my colleagues still speaking to me.” DENISE CLARK POPE, lecturer in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education, has published “Doing School”: How We Are Creating A Generation Of Stressed Out, Materialistic, Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, October 2001). The book offers a revealing, and troubling, view of today’s high school students frustrated by being caught in a “grade trap” that makes future success dependent on high grades and test scores.  FRANCISCO O. RAMIREZ gave keynote lectures at the Nordic International and Comparative Education meetings and at the Department of Education in the University of Frankfurt. These lectures contrasted American and European legacies with respect to university links to industry and to the state. His funded research on science, education, and development continues, with recent publications in Sociology of Education, American Sociological Review, and the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Ramirez taught at Stanford in Oxford in the Hilary Term. He is pictured at SUSE graduation with his advisee Jennifer Chen-Tiberghein and her daughter, Claire.In April, ROBERT ROESER was named one of the six William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars and awarded $300,000 over five years for his study, “Studies in School Experience and Patterns of Motivation and Achievement among Diverse Samples of Adolescents.” His research focuses on the relation between adolescents’ motivation to learn in school, and their achievement, mental health, and behavioral conduct in and out of school. DAN SCHWARTZ received the AERA Review of Research Award Winner 2001 for his co-authored article “Rethinking Transfer: A Simple Proposal With Multiple Implications.” The article examines research on educational transfer from both a retrospective and prospective perspective; he proposes an alternative that complements and extends current approaches.  INGRID SEYER is the newly appointed Director of the Master’s Program in Social Sciences in Education and Acting Assistant Professor of Education. She also teaches several courses on Urban Ed-ucation and the History of Education and collaborates with the Haas Public Service Center and the undergraduate Ethics in Society Program. Additionally, she will be working with the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities to facilitate and research youth development in her home city of Oakland. This past summer she completed her dissertation in the interdisciplinary program of SSE, Anthropology and History of Education.DEBORAH STIPEK is currently chairing a new National Academy of Science Panel on how to engage high school students in academic work.  CHRISTINE MIN WOTIPKA is the incoming Director of the Master’s Program in International Comparative Education and Acting Assistant Professor of Education. She received her doctoral degree in International Comparative Education from SUSE in June. In addition to the ICE research methods courses, she will teach “Education and the Status of Women: Com-parative Perspectives.” Her scholarly interests include women in science, international human rights, women’s studies, globalization, and higher education.For more SUSE in the News, see the News Bureau on the SUSE website, |
In July, Professor MARTIN CARNOY attended the inauguration of his former student ALEJANDRO TOLEDO (PHD ’93), President-elect of Peru. Carnoy was among special guests who attended an Andean celebration in Machu Picchu following the formal ceremony in Lima.
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Lee J. Cronbach, 1916-2001 Professor of Education Emeritus leaves legacy in educational and psychological testing |
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“Lee was highly respected and he was a towering intellect,” said Rich Shavelson, professor of education and former dean. Shavelson, who was a doctoral student of Cronbach`s in the late 1960s and early 1970s, said that Cronbach “seemed to be ahead of everything,” and that his critiques of colleagues’ work “led to the improvement of scientific methods used in psychology and education.” |
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Lee J. Cronbach, Vida Jacks Professor of Education Emeritus, died on October 1, 2001 in Palo Alto, CA with his daughter, Janet, at his bedside. He was 85. His illustrious career in educational and psychological testing began as a mathematics and chemistry teacher at Fresno High School and subsequently spanned the University of Chicago, Washington State University, the University of Illinois, and for the past 37 years, Stanford University. He was president of the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Psychometric Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In his widely cited work, “Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests,” he developed the most frequently used measure of the reliability of a psychological or educational test, called “Cronbach’s alpha.” At the time of his death, he was working on a paper commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of the alpha paper. The initial work on alpha led to his developing a theory of test reliability, “Generalizability Theory,” in which he explicated a comprehensive statistical model for identifying different sources of measurement error. His other measurement research included path-breaking work on test validity that deals with the scientific justifiability of the interpretations of test scores, and includes the seminal paper, “Construct Validity in Psychological Tests.” His research went beyond testing and included work on instruction and evaluation. His instruction research sought to link individual differences among people with educational environments in which they most benefited. His evaluation research widely influenced program evaluations across professions in recognizing the limitations of randomized field trials, noting the importance of local contexts on performance, and showing that evaluations went beyond the technical well into the social and political arenas. “Lee was highly respected and he was a towering intellect,” said Rich Shavelson, professor of education and former dean. Shavelson, who was a doctoral student of Cronbach`s in the late 1960s and early 1970s, said that Cronbach “seemed to be ahead of everything,” and that his critiques of colleagues’ work “led to the improvement of scientific methods used in psychology and education.” His wife, Helen, and 3 children, Janet, Bob and Joyce, survive him. Contributions in his memory may be made to the American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (1-888-588-2372 ext 1). |
