Cordray, David

Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California.

Cordray is Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is a past president of the American Evaluation Association and served on AEA's Board of Directors. He also served on the Evaluation Review Panel of the U.S. Department of Education, in the National Academy of Public Administration, on the Panel on the Status of Education in the Federal Government, the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine Panel of Needle Exchange and Bleach Distribution Programs, the National Research Council, and the Steering Committee for the Workshop on Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries.

His research focuses on estimating the numerical effects of social interventions directed at at-risk populations (e.g., homeless, substance abusers). In addition to conducting multisite evaluations of intervention programs, he has contributed to the development of methodological refinements of quasiexperimental designs, meta-analysis, and nontraditional forms of causal inquiry.

Cordray has served on the Editorial Boards of New Directions for Program Evaluation, Evaluation Review, and Evaluation and Program Planning. As President of the American Evaluation Association in 1972, Cordray appointed an ad hoc committee to examine the need for written principles of conduct for evaluators, and from that work the AEA Guiding Principles of Evaluators were developed. Cordray's publications include Meta-analysis for Explanation: A Casebook (with Cook, Cooper, Hartman, Hedges, Louis, Light, and Mosteller) and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Assessment: A Broader Perspective (with Pion).