Nambury S. Raju was an
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professor known for his work in
psychometricsPsychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and educational measurement...
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, and utility theory. He was a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology.
At the time of his death, Raju was a Distinguished Professor in the Institute of Psychology at
Illinois Institute of TechnologyIllinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
(IIT) in
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. Raju worked at
Science Research AssociatesFounded in 1938, SRA or Science Research Associates Inc. is a Chicago-based publisher of educational materials and schoolroom reading comprehension products. Early on, it had a trade and occupational focus...
(SRA) from 1961 to 1978, specializing in psychometrics and test validation. His first published article,
A new working formula for the split-half reliability model appeared in
Educational and Psychological MeasurementEducational and Psychological Measurement is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Psychology. The journal's editor is George A. Marcoulides...
in 1965 and was published with Isaiah Guttman, a colleague from SRA.