Gene V Glass coined the term meta-analysis and illustrated its first use in his presidential address to AERA in San Francisco in April 1976. The most extensive illustration of the technique was in the literature on psychotherapy outcome studies, published in 1980 by Johns Hopkins University Press under the title Benefits of Psychotherapy by Mary Lee Smith, Gene V Glass, and Thomas I. Miller. He is a Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University in both the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Psychology in Education divisions, having retired in 2010 from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Currently he is a senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center and a research professor in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education. He is a recipient of the distinguished contributions award of the AERA. His personal website is at www.gvglass.info. Gene V Glass was the principal author for Myths 5, 8, 26, 39, 40, and 42.
