AEC Fellows: Gary D. Gottfredson

Gary D. Gottfredson University of Washington Email: ggottfre@umd.edu

Gary D. Gottfredson is a Professor in the School Psychology Program at the University of Maryland College Park. Gottfredson received his Ph.D. in psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1976. His research interests include program development and evaluation, delinquency and drug prevention, vocational psychology, measurement, school climate, organization development, diversity, and educational effectiveness. His teaching interests include applied research and evaluation methods, psychological measurement, research design, and implementation of interventions in organizations. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He is the principal investigator of the Character Education Inquiry (a school-randomized trial of instruction to development social competencies in elementary school children), and co-principal investigator of the Evaluation of Instructional Consultation Teams (also a school-randomized trial of a schoolwide intervention to improve elementary school instruction), both funded by grants from the Institute for Education Sciences. He is author of Victimization in Schools (1985, with Denise Gottfredson), the Dictionary of Holland Occupational Codes (1996, with John Holland), and “A Theory-Ridden Approach to Program Evaluation” (1984, American Psychologist) which describes a systematic approach to engaging practitioners and scientists in the rigorous evaluation of social programs.

 

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