Larry Hedges

Larry Hedges is a national leader in the fields of educational statistics and evaluation. Larry joined the Northwestern faculty in 2005. He is one of eight Board of Trustees Professors at Northwestern, the university’s most distinguished academic position. He holds appointments in statistics, psychology, and education and social policy. Previously, he was the Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Larry's research straddles many fields, including sociology, psychology, and educational policy. He is best known for his work to develop statistical methods for meta-analysis (a statistical analysis of the results of multiple studies that combines their findings) in the social, medical, and biological sciences. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Educational Research Association. He was also president of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, which he helped found. He was elected "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association for 2013–14. Larry was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a member on the National Board for Education Sciences in 2012, was re-appointed in 2016, and was recently elected as Chair of the National Board for Education Sciences.