Herbert M Turner, III Adjunct Assistant Professor

Education
1983: BSc. Economics. University of Delaware
1985: MA. Public Administration: Finance and Statistics. University of Delaware
2002: Ph.D. Education: Policy Research, Evaluation, and Measurement.
University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Expertise
K-12 mathematics education
Parent involvement
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)
Systematic reviews and meta analysis
Applied statistics

Professional Biography
Dr. Turner has more than 25 years of quantitative research experience in the private, public, and education sectors. He is founder, president, and principal research scientist of ANALYTICA, a for-profit, minority-owned and operated company that provides high-quality research analytics in the social, behavioral, educational, and health-care sectors. ANALYTICA is a founding partner in the Regional Education Laboratory (REL)-Mid-Atlantic and lends its primary expertise in the systematic design, implementation, analysis, and reporting of RCTs and in the conduct of research synthesis (or meta-analysis) and secondary data analysis. ANALYTICA is also a leader in the development of a register of randomized field trials of educational evaluations as part of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC).

Previously, Dr. Turner served as the Scientific Research Director for The Campbell Collaboration, where he collaborated with Dr. Robert Boruch on the design, implementation, and maintenance of C2’s web-accessible register of completed randomized controlled trials (RCTs). He also served as the C2/AIR Project Coordinator of the Middle School Math review team for the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)—a joint venture between C2 and the American Institutes of Research—to produce systematic reviews on education intervention in the United States. In this role, Dr. Turner directed the Middle School Math Evidence Team conducting a continuous review of RCTs or high-quality quasi-experiments. Dr. Turner has participated in the implementation of several RCTs and has also published on methods for identifying RCTs, on the implementation of group randomized trials, and has completed a meta-analysis of seventeen RCTs that statistically examines the effect of parent involvement on student achievement.

Research Interests and Current Projects
Dr. Turner serves as chief methodologist for the REL-Mid Atlantic Regional Education Laboratory sponsored by the Institute of Educational Services (IES). He is responsible for designing and conducting two large-scale, cluster randomized controlled trials in the Mid-Atlantic region as well as the methodological review of the Lab’s Fast Response Studies that include systematic reviews and secondary data analysis. Dr. Turner is also a lead strategist for the development of the What Works Clearinghouse register of randomized controlled trials in Education, also sponsored by IES. Dr. Turner has recently completed a systematic review on the effect of parent involvement on elementary school-age children’s academic achievement.

Courses Taught
EDUC 765: Data Processing and Analysis
EDUC 767: ANOVA and Regression
EDUC980: Research Methods in Counseling Psychology

Selected Publications
Nye, C., Turner, H.M., and Schwartz, J. (2006). Effects of parental involvement on elementary school student’s academic achievement. The Campbell Collaboration: http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/Fralibrary.html

Turner, H. M. and Bernard, R. M. Calculating and Synthesizing Effect Size (2006). Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders, 33, 42-55.

Wade, A., Turner, H.M., Rothstein, H., and Lavenberg, J. (2006). Information retrieval and the role of the information specialist in producing high quality systematic reviews in the social, behavioral, and education sciences. Evidence and Policy, 2(1), 89-108

Boruch, R., May, H., Turner, H.M., et al. (2004). Estimating the effects of interventions deployed in many places. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(5), 608 – 625.  

Turner, H.M., Boruch, R., Petrosino, A., Lavenberg, J., de Moya, D., and Rothstein, H. (2003). Populating an international web-based randomized trials register in the social, behavioral, criminological, and education sciences. The Annals of the AmericanAcademy of Political and Social Science, 589, 203-223.

Gadsden, V L., Stanton, E.F., and Turner, H.M. (2003). Situated identities of young, African American fathers in low-income urban settings: Perspectives on home, street, and the system. Family Court Review, 41(3), 381-399.
     
Supovitz, J.A., and Turner, H.M. (2000). The effects of professional development on science teaching practices and classroom culture. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 37(9), 963-980.