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Campbell Collaboration: New Directions in Identifying What Works

About the Presenters

Chad Nye, PhD, is Coordinator of the C2 Education Coordinating Group. He is Executive Director of the Center for Autism & Related Disabilities and Professor at Central Florida University, College of Health and Public Affairs. Dr. Nye has over 20 years of experience in the area of meta-analysis and systematic review of intervention evidence in the area of disability. He has more than 10 publications of meta-analyses of speech and language interventions with adults and children. His most recent C2 systematic review is Effects of Parent Involvement on Elementary School Age Children’s Student Achievement (Nye, Turner, & Schwarz, 2006). Dr. Nye was a Campbell Collaboration/Robert Wood Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, working in the area of systematic review of education and healthcare issues for children (2001-2002). In 1995, he fulfilled a Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship in Jordan.

Herb Turner, PhD, is the Director of Scientific Research for the Campbell Collaboration and is the Project Director for the Middle School Math Review team for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), which is a joint venture of C2 and the American Institutes of Research (AIR) to produce systematic reviews on education interventions in the United States. He is also founding co-editor of C2’s quarterly electronic newsletter (C2 Quarterly) and serves as the Assistant Coordinator for the Education Coordinating Group. Dr. Turner has published on methods for building the C2’s Web-accessible trials registers (C2-SPECTR and C2-PROT) and for conducting C2 systematic reviews. He is currently working on a C2 systematic review on the Impacts of Class Size on K-5 Student Achievement. Dr. Turner lectures at the University of Pennsylvania on Data Processing and Analysis, and at Central Florida University on Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis. In addition to his expertise in systematic reviews, he is an expert in research design and analysis, Web-based survey research, and database design and development.