Gene V. Glass
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statistician
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and researcher working in educational psychology
Educational psychology
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and the social sciences
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. He coined the term "meta-analysis
Meta-analysis
In statistics, a meta-analysis combines the results of several studies that address a set of related research hypotheses. In its simplest form, this is normally by identification of a common measure of effect size, for which a weighted average might be the output of a meta-analyses. Here the...
" and illustrated its use in 1976 while a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder. The most extensive illustration of the technique was to the literature on psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
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outcome studies, published in 1980 by Johns Hopkins University Press
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under the title Benefits of Psychotherapy by Mary Lee Smith, Gene V Glass, and Thomas I. Miller. Gene V Glass is a Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University
Arizona State University
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in both the educational leadership and policy studies and psychology in education divisions, having retired in 2010. Currently he is a Senior Researcher at the National Education Policy Center
National Education Policy Center
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and a Research Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education.
Background
Glass was born in Lincoln, Nebraska and educated in the Lincoln Public School system, graduating from Lincoln, Northeast High School in 1958. He attended Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1958-1960 and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln from 1960 to January, 1962, earning a Bachelor's degree with a joint major in mathematics and German. He worked as a research assistant for Robert E. Stake at UNL from Spring 1961 until graduation. At Stake's suggestion, he chose to immediately enroll in graduate school. He entered the PhD program in statistics, measurement and experimental design at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in February 1962. He graduated with a PhD in Educational Psychology in May, 1965, having studied with Julian C. Stanley, Chester W. Harris, and Henry F. Kaiser. His doctoral dissertation, entitled Alpha Factor Analysis of Infallible Variables, won the Creative Talent award in Psychometrics given by the American Institutes for Research for 1966. In August 1965, he joined Stake and other colleagues as an Assistant Professor in the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, where he taught for two years before moving to the University of Colorado Boulder. He was promoted to Professor at CU-Boulder in 1970. In 1986, Glass joined the faculty of the Arizona State UniversityArizona State University
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in Tempe, Arizona
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, from which he retired in 2010.
Contributions
In 1970, he published his first book, Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology, with his adviser Julian C. Stanley as co-author. The book, which was started in 1964 while Glass was still a graduate student, went through three editions, the most recent having been published in 1996 with Kenneth D. Hopkins as co-author. In all, as of 2010 his professional résumé lists some 21 books and more than 250 articles, reviews and reports.His scholarly contributions are divided into three periods: 1964-1974 statistical methods including contributions to factor analysis and meta-analysis; 1975-1985 psychotherapy outcome research; 1986-2010 education policy analysis. In addition, Glass has been an active editor of scholarly journals: 1968-1970 Review of Educational Research, 1978-1980 Psychological Bulletin (Editor for Methodology),
1984-1986 American Educational Research Journal (Co-Editor with Mary Lee Smith and Lorrie A. Shepard). In recent years he has championed the cause of open access to scholarly literature, having created in 1993 the ("free-to-read") online journal Education Policy Analysis Archives
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Education Policy Analysis Archives is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal established in 1993 by Gene V. Glass . Articles are published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. The journal covers education policy at all levels of the education system in all nations. The current editor in chief...
and in 1998 the multi-lingual online book review journal Education Review
Education Review
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, both of which journals remained in continuous publication in 2010.
In 2006, he was honored with the Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research Award of the American Educational Research Association
American Educational Research Association
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. In 2008, he published Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America
Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America
Fertilizers, Pills & Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America is a book published by Gene V Glass in early 2008 in which contemporary education debates are seen as the result of demographic and economic trends throughout the 20th Century. The book was published by Information Age...
in which contemporary education debates are seen as the result of demographic and economic trends throughout the 20th Century.
One type of effect size
Effect size
In statistics, an effect size is a measure of the strength of the relationship between two variables in a statistical population, or a sample-based estimate of that quantity...
estimator was named after Glass by Larry V. Hedges
Larry V. Hedges
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