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Summer Research Training Institute: Design and Analysis of Practical Quasi-Experiments for use in Education: Faculty Biographies

Thomas D. Cook, Ph.D.
Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice
Professor of Sociology, Psychology, Education and Social Policy
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University

Tom Cook is a professor of sociology, psychology, education and social policy at Northwestern University where he is also the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice and an Institute for Policy Research faculty fellow. He is best known for his work on the theory and practice of the design and analysis of various forms of quasi-experiment. He has published heavily on threats to validity, and enumerating threats to internal validity and external validity in particular, on regression discontinuity studies, on interrupted time series work and on various forms of individual and group-level matching. He has authored or co-authored ten books and about one hundred articles on these topics, including Cook & Campbell, Quasi-Experimentation: Design and Analysis Issues for Field Settings (1979) and Shadish, Cook & Campbell, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference (2002).

William R. Shadish, Ph.D.
Professor and Founding Faculty
Chair for Academic Personnel, Psychological Sciences
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced

William R. Shadish is Professor and Founding Faculty, University of California, Merced, where he is also Chair of Psychological Sciences. His current research interests include experimental and quasi-experimental design, the empirical study of methodological issues, and the methodology and practice of meta-analysis. He is author (with T.D. Cook & D.T. Campbell, 2002) of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference, (with T.D. Cook & L.C. Leviton, 1991) of Foundations of Program Evaluation, (with L. Robinson & C. Lu, 1997) of ES: A Computer Program and Manual for Effect Size Calculation, co-editor of five other volumes, and the author of over 140 articles and chapters. He is the founding Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology. He was 1997 President of the American Evaluation Association, winner of the 1994 Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory from the American Evaluation Association, the 2000 Robert Ingle Award for service to the American Evaluation Association, the 1994 and 1996 Outstanding Research Publication Awards from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the 2002 Donald T. Campbell Award for Innovations in Methodology from the Policy Studies Organization, and the 2009 Frederick Mosteller Award for Lifetime Contributions to Systematic Reviews from the Campbell Collaboration. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Associate Editor of American Psychologist, past Associate Editor of Multivariate Behavioral Research, and past editor of New Directions for Evaluation.

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