Gene V. Glass

Who is Gene V. Glass?

Gene V Glass is an American statistician and researcher working in educational psychology and the social sciences. He coined the term "meta-analysis" and illustrated its first use in his Presidential address to the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco in April, 1976. The most extensive illustration of the technique was to the literature on psychotherapy outcome studies, published in 1980 by Johns Hopkins University Press under the title Benefits of Psychotherapy by Mary Lee Smith, Gene V Glass, and Thomas I. Miller. Gene V Glass is a Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University in both the educational leadership and policy studies and psychology in education divisions, having retired in 2010 from the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Currently he is a Senior Researcher at the National Education Policy Center and a Research Professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education.

Gene Glass maintains a blog in which he comments on current issues in K-12 education policy.