Dr. Geoffrey Borman | Education | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Geoffrey D. Borman, Ph.D. University of Chicago, currently the Alice Wiley Snell Endowed Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, Tempe, has established a distinguished career in quantitative methods, educational policy analysis and the design of large‐scale randomized and quasi‐experimental studies directed at educational inequality and school reform. He holds over 55 major peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and technical reports his Scopus profile reports 3,653 citations and an h-index of 30 His work includes seminal meta-analyses of comprehensive school reform and national randomized field trials such as the long-term evaluation of “Success for All”, and has addressed summer learning, teacher quality, and self-affirmation interventions to narrow achievement gaps. His methodological contributions span causal inference, multilevel modeling, and research synthesis, and his substantive agenda focuses on how schooling outcomes are socially distributed and how interventions can promote equity. He has held leadership roles such as Director of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in the Education Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently leads research efforts and training at ASU. His numerous honors include Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and national awards for research impact