Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness

First Annual Conference 2008 - Keynote Speakers

Thomas D. Cook Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University

Thomas Cook is interested in social science research methodology, program evaluation, whole school reform, and contextual factors that influence adolescent development, particularly for urban minorities. Cook has written or edited ten books and published numerous articles and book chapters. He received the Myrdal Prize for Science from the Evaluation Research Society in 1982, the Donald Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology from the Policy Sciences Organization in 1988, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of Division 5 of the American Psychological Association in 1997. He is a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and a member of its Committee on the Future of Work. Cook was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2000 and was inducted as the Margaret Mead Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in April 2003.

Selected Publications:

Cook, T. D., and D. Foray. In press. Building the capacity to experiment in schools: A case study of the Institute of Educational Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. Economics of Innovation and New Technology.

Cook, T. D. and V. Sinha. 2005. Randomized experiments in educational research. In Complementary Methods in Educational Research, eds. G. Camilli, P. Green, and P. B. Belmore. Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association.

Cook, T. D. 2003. Why have educational evaluators chosen not to do randomized Experiments? Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, 589: 114-49.

Shadish, W. R., T. D. Cook, and D. T. Campbell. 2002. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.

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