Gene V. Glass

Gene V Glass, born on 19 June 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska, is an American statistician and educational researcher. According to the science writer Morton Hunt he coined the term meta-analysis and first illustrated it in his 1976 presidential address to the American Educational Research Association; its most extensive early application was the 1980 book Benefits of Psychotherapy, written with Mary Lee Smith and Thomas I. Miller, which pooled the psychotherapy outcome literature. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and German at the University of Nebraska and a PhD in educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin in 1965, then taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Colorado Boulder and, from 1986, Arizona State University, where he became Regents' Professor Emeritus in 2010. His career moved from statistical methods to psychotherapy outcome research and then to education policy analysis, and he was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2003.