Larry V. Hedges, PhD

Larry V. Hedges is the Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Policy Research and in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He was previously the Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. His research interests include the development of statistical methods for social research, the use of statistical concepts in social and cognitive theory, educational assessment, and educational policy analysis. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Psychological Association. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, was Editor of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, Quantitative Methods Editor of Psychological Bulletin, and Associate Editor of the American Journal of Sociology. He has served on numerous professional boards and panels including the technical advisory committees of both the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). His books include Statistical Methods for Meta analysis (with Ingram Olkin) and The Handbook of Research Synthesis (with Harris Cooper). Hedges was one of the lead instructors in the 2007 IES workshop on randomized controlled trials, was a faculty member in the 2005 NIH Summer Institute for Randomized Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, and has led over a dozen other research training workshops sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the American Society for Quality Control, the American Psychological Association, the American Educational Research Association, and various universities and research organizations.