Curriculum Vitae
Harris Cooper
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249 Psych
Box 90086
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708919-660-3167, 919-660-5793 (office) 
(email)
- Education
PhD Social Psychology University of Connecticut 1975 MA Psychology University of Connecticut 1974 BA Psychology and Sociology SUNY at Stony Brook 1972
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University
- Professor of Psychology/Director of Program in Education, , 2003 - present
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Chair, Department of Psychological Sciences, 1999 - 2002
- Frederick Middlebush Professor of Psychology, , 1991 - 1994
- Professor of Psychological Sciences, , 1985 - 2003
- Associate Professor of Psychology and Research Associate, Center for Research in Social Behavior, 1980 - 1985
- Assistant Professor of Psychology and Research Associate, Center for Research in Social Behavior, 1977 - 1980
- Colgate University
- Instructor of Psychology, , 1976 - 1977
- Visiting Positions
- Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1991 - 1992
- Visiting Professor, University of Oregon, 1988
- Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 1983 - 1984
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1975 - 1976
- Visiting Professor, University of Oregon, 1988
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Outstanding Research Review of 2006, American Educational Research Association, for "Does Homework Improve Avcademic Achievement?: A Synthesis of Research", April, 2007
Frederick Mosteller Award for Lifetime Contribution to Research Synthesis, International Campbell Collaboraton, for lifetime contribution to the development of research synthesis methodology, February, 2007
Interpretive Scholarship Award, American Educational Research Association
Gold Chalk Award, Excellence in Graduate Education, University of Missouri-Columbia
Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research, AERA
National Research Service Award, ADAMHA
- Recent Grant Support
- Does and Extended School Day and/or School Year Improve Achievement?, Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., 2008/01-2008/12.
- Handbook of Research Synthesis (2nd Ed.), Russell Sage Foundation, 2006/01-2008/12.
- Research on After-School Programs: A Synthesis of Syntheses, Spencer Foundation, 2005/09-2006/10.
- The Center for Research Synthesis Methods, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2001/11-2006/06.
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- What is an effect size? Consumer education about statistical terms: Helping education audiences find meaning in research results., Annual Summit Office of English Language Acquisition, Washington, DC., October, 2007
- Out of School Time Research: Looking Back, Looking Ahead., American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA., April 1, 2006
- Improving afterschool programs by improving self-assessment., Annual meeting of the National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks, Atlanta, Georgia., January, 2006
- Serving two masters: Homework research as a case study in performing rigorous research synthesis that also meets the needs of practitioners and policy makers,, Mathematica Research, Washington DC, December, 2005
- Introduction to Systematic Campbell Reviews., Nordic Social Science Conference on the Effects of Public Policy Interventions. Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2005
- Serving two masters: Homework research as a case study in performing rigorous research synthesis that also meets the needs of practitioners and policy makers, Nordic Social Science Conference on the Effects of Public Policy Interventions. Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2005
- Systematic reviews from an editors point of view, Nordic Social Science Conference on the Effects of Public Policy Interventions. Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2005
- Transmission channels: Originators and intermediaries, Knowledge Use in Education at the Social Science Research Council, New York, NY., June, 2005
- Homework in the afterschool program, North Carolina Network of Statewide Afterschool, April, 2005
- Summer learning loss and the effectiveness of summer, Center for Summer Learning, Baltimore, MD., April, 2005
- Homework help: Effective practices in afterschool, National Network Statewide Afterschool Networks, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February, 2005
- The Campbell Collaboration systematic review, Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA., February, 2005
- What Works Clearinghouse, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C., April, 2003
- "Assessing the Design and Implementation of Research on Educational Interventions: The Approach of the "What Works Clearinghous", Show-Me Center's Resarchers' Workshop, Columbia, MO, May 2003
- Using Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis to Inform Educational Policy and Practice, Workshop on Understanding and Promoting Knowledge Accumulation in Education: Tools and Strategies for Educational Research, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., July 2003
- Introduction to the Campbell Collaboration:, Invited address at the annual meeting of the International Cochrane Collaboration, Barcelona, Spain., October 2003
- "Making the most of summer school", Reading Is Fundamental Conference on Summer Learning Loss, Washington, DC, September 2002
- The Campbell Collaboration Systematic Review, Annual Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, February 2002
- Summer learning loss and the effectiveness of summer school, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Washington, D.C., June, 2002
- "Has anyone else had this idea" to "Yes Tom Brokaw, I am the author of that systematic review", Annual Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, February 2002
- The Campbell Collaboration systematic review, Campbell Collaboration Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, February, 2002
- Issues in data sharing, annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2001
- The effects of summer vacation on achievement test scores, California State Institute for Educational Reform, Sacramento, CA, February 2001
- Is the school calendar dated? Education, economics, and the politics of time, Summer Learning and the Achievement Gap: First National Research Conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, July 2000
- Strenghtening the role of research in policy decisions: The Campbell Collaboration and the promise of systematic reviews, Conference on Research in Public Universities, Merrill Advanced Studies Center, Lawrence, KS, June 2000
- What we know about summer loss and summer school, Annual conference of the National Association for Year-Round Education, San Diego, CA, February 2000
- Using research to answer student, parent, and teacher questions about homework, Annual Learning Disorders Conference, Harvard School of Education, Cambridge, MA, November 1999
- What research says about homework, Annual meeting of the Missouri Parent Teacher Association, Columbia, MO, October 1999
- Making the most of summer school: What research says about policy and practice, Annual meeting of the National School Board Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1999
- What we know about summer loss and summer school, Annual conference of the Georgia Association for Year-Round Education, Atlanta, GA, March 1999
- What we know about summer loss and summer school, Annual conference of the National Association for Year-Round Education, San Diego, CA, February 1999
- What we know about summer loss and summer school, Chicago Teacher’s Union Quest Conference, Chicago, IL, May, 1998
- What we know about summer loss and summer school, Annual meeting of the Northwest Association for Year-Round Education, Seattle, WA, March, 1998
- What we know about summer loss and summer school, Annual meeting of the National Association for Year-Round Education, Houston, TX, February, 1998
- What we know about summer learning loss, Annual meeting of the Arizona Association for Year-Round Education, Phoenix, AZ, November, 1997
- What we know about summer learning loss, Annual meeting of the National Association for Year-Round Education, San Diego, CA., February, 1997
- Educational research priorities for the next decade, Conference on Educational Reform and Transfromation. Department of Education, Boston, MA, September, 1996
- Overview of research synthesis and meta-analytic procedures, Center for Research in Chronic Disorders, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, March, 1996
- The methodology of research synthesis, Office of Special Education Research Project Director's Conference, Washington, DC., July, 1995
- What is research synthesis? A brief overview, National Conference on Research Synthesis: Social Science Informing Public Policy, Washington, DC, June, 1994
- Homework, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April, 1993
- Integrating research and literature review, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Salt Lake City, UT, February, 1993
- Meta-analysis: Its contribution to theory development, Nursing Research Conference, Columbia, MO, April, 1992
- Meta-analysis and the integrative research review, School of Nursing, University of Alabama, Birmingham, June, 1991
- The integrative research review, Issues in Nursing Research Conference, Park City, Utah., March, 1991
- Meta-analysis and the integrative research review, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, September, 1990
- Meta-analysis and the integrative research review, Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America/Institute of Management Science, New York, New York, October, 1989
- An introduction to meta-analysis and the integrative research review, 4th International Symposium on Social Prevention in Childhood and Adolescence, Bielefeld, West Germany, December, 1988
- Homework: An integrative research review, Conference of National Science Foundation Secondary School Mathematics Projects, Washington, DC, June, 1987
- Scientific guidelines of the integrative research review, Invited colloquium at the Center for Human Development and Education, Temple University., May, 1987
- Homework: An integrative research review, Conference of National Science Foundation Elementary School Mathematics Projects, Fullerton, CA, November, 1986
- Moving beyond meta-analysis, National Committee on Statistics Conference on the Future of Meta-Analysis, Hedgesville, W. VA, October, 1986
- Chapter 1 programs reduce student-to-instructor ratios but do reduced ratios affect achievement?, Conference on Alternative Designs in Compensatory Education, Washington, DC, June, 1986
- Moving beyond meta-analysis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, December, 1985
- Teacher expectation effects: A review with implications for classroom instruction, Central Institute for Educational Research, Beijing, China, September, 1985
- The literature review: Knowledge synthesis activities in education and psychology, Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April, 1985
- Scientific guidelines for conducting integrative research reviews, Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May, 1983
- Communication of teacher expectancies to students, National invitational conference on Teacher and Student Perceptions of Success and Failure and Implications for Learning and Instruction, University of Pittsburgh, October, 1979
- Out of School Time Research: Looking Back, Looking Ahead., American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA., April 1, 2006
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- Jeffrey C. Valentine, (2001)
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2008/07/07