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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Workshop Speakers, and Workshop Discussants
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Workshop Speakers, and Workshop Discussants
Pages 89-96
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is senior vice president for research emeritus at the American Institutes for Research, where he is involved in the development of new programs of research for the organization and brings a deep interest in education research and policy issues. He has had an interest in measurement in the social sciences throughout his professional career, growing out of his minor in educational psychology with an emphasis on tests and measurement.
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Harris Cooper is professor of psychology and chair of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. His work involves research syntheses and meta-analysis in varied fields, such as personality and social psychology, developmental psychology, marketing, and developmental medicine and child neurology, and the application of social and developmental psychology to education policy issues.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has served on the National Research Council's Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and Board on Testing and Assessment; he also has served on numerous research panels of the National Research Council and has chaired panel studies of high-stakes testing and standards for adult literacy.
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Robert T Michael is Eliakim Hastings Moore distinguished service professor emeritus in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and project director of the National Longitudinal Studies Program of the National Opinion Research Center.
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Census Bureau, director of the National Opinion Research Center, president of the Social Science Research Council, and senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Russell-Sage Foundation; and member of other professional associations.
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is deputy director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council and study director of the division's project on the use of social science research as evidence in public policy. Previously he served as director of the division's Committee on National Statistics and at the National Science Foundation, where he worked on developing the research priority area for the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
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Robert J Willis is professor of economics and research professor in the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center of the Institute for Social Research.
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