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Elizabeth Tipton

Co-Director of the STEPP Center; IPR Fellow

tipton@northwestern.edu
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Elizabeth Tipton is a Professor of Statistics and Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. She is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics and is on the Editorial Boards of Psychological Bulletin, Research Synthesis Methods, and Observational Studies. Her work has been funded by the Institute for Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the Raikes Foundation. While a member of the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, Elizabeth received Early Career Awards from the American Education Research Association, the Society for Research Synthesis Methods, and the American Psychological Association. She is the 2020 recipient of the Campbell Collective’s Frederick Mosteller Award for an important contribution to the theory, method, or practice of systematic reviewing. Elizabeth received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Northwestern in 2011.

Larry V. Hedges

Co-Director of the STEPP Center; IPR Fellow

l-hedges@northwestern.edu
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Larry V. Hedges is Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University with appointments as a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, the School of Education & Social Policy the Department of Psychology, and the Weinberg School of Medicine. Larry is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. He co-founded the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness and was honored by the establishment of the annual Hedges Lecture in 2016. Larry received the Yidan Prize for Education Research in 2018.  In 2023, he was selected by the World Cultural Council to receive the José Vasconcelos World Award for Education.  Prior to Northwestern, he was the Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980.