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Robert Boruch, Ph.D.
University Trustee Chair Professor, Graduate School of Education and the Statistics Department Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

Robert Boruch is University Trustee Chair Professor at the Graduate School of Education and the Statistics Department (Wharton School) at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves periodically on the faculty of the Fels Institute for Government and the Annenberg School of Communications Summer Institute on Statistics. Boruch is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, and the Academy for Experimental Criminology. He has received awards for his work on evaluation policy, randomized trials, and on privacy of individuals and confidentiality in social research from the American Evaluation Association (Myrdal Award), American Educational Research Association (Research Review Award), and the Policy Studies Association (Donald T. Campbell Award). His most recent books include “Evidence Matters: Randomized Trials in Education Research,” edited with Frederick Mosteller and published by Brookings Institution Press in 2002, and Randomized Experiments for Planning and Evaluation: A Practical Guide, published in 1997 by Sage Publications. His most recent edited journal volume is the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences special issue on place randomized trials (May 2005). Dr. Boruch is current co-chair of the Steering Group of the International Campbell Collaboration, which is organized to generate systematic reviews of evidence (http://campbellcollaboration.org). Boruch is also principal investigator for the Institute of Education Sciences What Works Clearinghouse which is designed to be a central and trusted source of information on evidence about what works in education (http://w-w-c.org). He has lectured on the topic of systematic reviews, randomized trials, and privacy and confidentiality at professional meetings and international forums in Cape Town, New Delhi, Warsaw, Berlin, Mannheim, Bielefeld, Ottowa, Montreal, Cape Town, London, Durham, Edinburgh, Nairobi, Abijan, Shanghai, Bejing, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Lisbon, Madrid, Cali (Colombia), Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Geneva, and in the United States. He was advisor to early trials in educational projects in Colombia and Nicaragua. He organized the international Bellagio and New York Conferences on Place Randomized Trials in 2002 and 2003.

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