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Member Information
Robert F. Boruch, PhD
Professor, Education and Statistics
Director, Center for Research and Evaluation of Social Policy (CRESP)
Director, Policy Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program
Office Phone: 215-898-0409
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Email: robertb@gse.upenn.edu
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Education: PhD 1968, Iowa State University
Keywords: Policy, Education, Statistics
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Evaluation Policy and Statistics Policy
Education indicators in China, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore,and United States
Welfare reform and teenagers' education
Multi-institution randomized field experiments
Record systems, survey systems, field trials and their linkage
Summary:
Designing studies that produce defensible statistical and qualitative evidence on basic evaluation questions: What is the severity, scope, and nature of the problem? How and how well are programs implemented to reduce the problem? What is the relative effectiveness of alternative programs: How and how well are programs implemented to reduce the problem? What is the cost/efffectiveness of alternatives? The relevant contexts include education, civil and criminal justice, health risks, mental health, and welfare.
Representative Publications:
(with S. Coyle and C. Turner) Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs. Washington , DC : National Academy of Sciences, 1991.
Controlled Experiments for Planning and Evaluation: A Practical Guide. Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage Publications, 1997.
"Taxes, Tax Expenditures and Evaluation". New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1998
(with G, Terhanian) "Cross-Design Synthesis." Advances in Educational Productivity, 1998
(with E. Foley ) The Honestly Experimental Society, In: The Campbell Legacy. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks , CA : 1999.
