Glass, Gene V

(b. 1940, Lincoln, Nebraska). Ph.D. Educational Psychology, M.S. Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin; B.S. Mathematics and German, University of Nebraska.

Glass is Professor of Education Policy Studies and Professor of Psychology in Education at Arizona State University at Tempe, where he has held appointments in three departments, headed the Ph.D. program in Education, and served as Associate Dean of Policy for Research in the College of Education. Before moving to Arizona State University in 1986, he held faculty positions at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1975, he was elected President of the American Educational Research Association; he was the youngest president the association had had in its 80-year history. Glass has been Visiting Scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich and the Center for the Study of Evaluation at UCLA.

His primary contribution to the field of evaluation was his invention in 1976 of the statistical technique for the synthesis of empirical research studies currently known as meta-analysis. Trained originally in statistics, his interests include psychotherapy research, evaluation methodology, and policy analysis. Primary influences on his work include Robert E. Stake, Michael Scriven, and Paul E. Meehl. He served as Review Editor of Educational Research (1968–1970), Methodology Editor for Psychological Bulletin (1978–1980), and Coeditor of American Educational Research Journal (1983–1986) and, in 1993, he created and still edits the first all-electronic scholarly journal in education on the Internet, Education Policy Analysis Archives. He is also Editor of Education Review and Executive Editor of International Journal of Education & the Arts.

He has published more than a dozen books, including Design and Analysis of Time-Series Experiments (with V. L. Willson and J. M. Gottman), Benefits of Psychotherapy (with M. L. Smith and T. Miller), Meta-Analysis in Social Research (with B. McGaw and M. L. Smith), and School Class Size: Research and Policy (with L. S. Cahen, M. L. Smith, and [Page 171]N. N. Filby), as well as nearly 200 articles in scholarly and professional journals. His work on meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcomes (with M. L. Smith) was named as one of the “Forty Studies That Changed Psychology” in the book of the same name by Roger R. Hock (1999).

Besides winning the Creative Talent Award in Psychometrics from the American Institutes for Research for his dissertation, recognition for his work includes the American Educational Research Association's Palmer O. Johnson Award (received twice, in 1968 and 1970), the American Evaluation Association's Paul Lazarsfeld Award (1984), the Cattell Award of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arizona Educational Research Organization (1998). He is also a member of the National Academy of Education (2000).