About
David Cordray is Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is a member of the Quantitative Methods and Evaluation Program within the Department of Psychology and Human Development. He is Director of the interdisciplinary Experimental Education Research Training (ExpERT) predoctoral training program and Director of its post-doctoral counterpart (ExpERT Plus). He was recently awarded a grant (with Dale Farran and Mark Lipsey) from IES to develop methods for assessing intervention fidelity in randomized field trials. Professor Cordray has written extensively on research and evaluation methodology in education and human services areas. He has conducted experimental, quasi-experimental and meta-analytic assessments of intervention effectiveness in education, health, welfare, juvenile justice, and homelessness. Professor Cordray was a member of the Board of Directors for the Evaluation Research Society and the American Evaluation Association, and is Past-President of the American Evaluation Association. He has served on dozens of technical advisory committees for national evaluations in education and related areas. He has been on editorial boards for major evaluation journals; he has served on a dozen Institute of Medicine/National Research Council committees and panels for the National Academy of Sciences; and he was a long-term (1992-2001) member of the Evaluation Review Panel in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education. Currently, he is a principal member IES's review panel for the Reading and Writing competitions. He is a National Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences.