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According to Wikipedia, Robert Francis Boruch is an American psychologist. Boruch studied metallurgical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, graduating in 1964, and completed a doctorate in psychology alongside a minor in statistics in 1968 at Iowa State University. He was a fellow at Stanford University between 1986 and 1987. Dr. Boruch taught at Northwestern University until 1989, when he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty. Dr. Boruch was later appointed University Trustee Professor of Education and Statistics within the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Over the course of his career Dr. Boruch has been elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy for Experimental Criminology, the American Educational Research Association, and the American Statistical Association. Dr. Boruch is co-founder of the International Campbell Collaboration, and an award named in his honor is given each year to people who have contributed remarkably to evidence-based policy.

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Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination (2005) (1326)
Domestic violence and children: prevalence and risk in five major U.S. cities. (1997) (399)
Evidence matters : randomized trials in education research (2002) (294)
The Ottawa Statement on the Ethical Design and Conduct of Cluster Randomized Trials (2012) (213)
Social Experimentation: A Method for Planning and Evaluating Social Intervention. (1975) (209)
The Campbell Collaboration (2001) (207)
3 – Making the Case for Randomized Assignment to Treatments by Considering the Alternatives: Six Ways in Which Quasi-Experimental Evaluations In Compensatory Education Tend to Underestimate Effects (1975) (199)
Replication in Prevention Science (2011) (167)
Impact of CONSORT extension for cluster randomised trials on quality of reporting and study methodology: review of random sample of 300 trials, 2000-8 (2011) (158)
Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration (2001) (148)
Randomized Experiments for Planning and Evaluation: A Practical Guide (1998) (143)
Moving Through MOOCs (2014) (139)
The Importance of Randomized Field Trials (2000) (118)
Ethical issues posed by cluster randomized trials in health research (2011) (118)
Sensitivity, bias, and theory in impact evaluations. (1977) (115)
Assuring the Confidentiality of Social Research Data (1979) (110)
Randomized experiments for planning and evaluation (1996) (107)
Interventions in Developing Nations for Improving Primary and Secondary School Enrollment of Children: A Systematic Review (2012) (92)
Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs (1991) (91)
When is informed consent required in cluster randomized trials in health research? (2011) (89)
Randomized Field Experiments for Program Planning, Development, and Evaluation (1978) (81)
The Campbell Collaboration Social, Psychological, Educational and Criminological Trials Register (C2-SPECTR) to Facilitate the Preparation and Maintenance of Systematic Reviews of Social and Educational Interventions (2000) (79)
A Procedure for Estimation of Trait, Method, and Error Variance Attributable to a Measure1 2 (1970) (70)
National Norms for Entering College Freshmen - Fall 1969. (1967) (70)
Relations among statistical methods for assuring confidentiality of social research data (1972) (68)
Impact of the Minnesota Parental Notification Law on abortion and birth. (1991) (67)
Researchers’ perceptions of ethical challenges in cluster randomized trials: a qualitative analysis (2013) (61)
Alternative Methods of Analysis: Multitrait-Multimethod Data (1970) (60)
Composition of episodic memory. (1978) (58)
An Appraisal of Educational Program Evaluations: Federal, State, and Local Agencies. (1980) (57)
Inadequate reporting of research ethics review and informed consent in cluster randomised trials: review of random sample of published trials (2011) (53)
Effects of Advanced Course-taking on Math and Science Achievement: Addressing Selection Bias Using Propensity Scores (2004) (51)
Social Policy Experimentation (1985) (50)
Ethical and policy issues in cluster randomized trials: rationale and design of a mixed methods research study (2009) (50)
The Political and Institutional Origins of a Randomized Controlled Trial on Elementary School Class Size: Tennessee's Project STAR (1999) (49)
Who is the research subject in cluster randomized trials in health research? (2011) (44)
Student Task Persistence in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study: A Major Source of Acheievement Differences at the National, Classroom, and Student Levels. (2002) (42)
What is the role and authority of gatekeepers in cluster randomized trials in health research? (2012) (41)
Coupling Randomized Experiments and Approximations To Experiments in Social Program Evaluation (1975) (39)
Maintaining confidentiality on data in educational research: A systemic analysis. (1971) (39)
Preface: Better Evaluation for Evidence-Based Policy: Place Randomized Trials in Education, Criminology, Welfare, and Health (2005) (38)
Contributions of Evaluation To Education Programs and Policy (1983) (37)
Resolving Ethical and Legal Problems in Randomized Experiments (2000) (37)
From randomized controlled trials to evidence grading schemes: current state of evidence‐based practice in social sciences (2008) (34)
Does clinical equipoise apply to cluster randomized trials in health research? (2011) (34)
Estimating the Effects of Interventions That are Deployed in Many Places (2004) (34)
Medical Device Reporting (1989) (32)
RRT meets RDD: statistical strategies for assuring response privacy in telephone surveys. (1982) (31)
Confidentiality-Preserving Modes of Access To Files and To Interfile Exchange for Useful Statistical Analysis (1977) (30)
Randomized Experiments for Planning and Testing Projects in Developing Countries (1989) (29)
Solutions to ethical and legal problems in social research (1984) (29)
Evaluating AIDS prevention programs. Expanded edition. (1991) (29)
The Need for Experiments in Criminal Justice Settings (2000) (28)
Advancing knowledge about replication in criminology (2018) (27)
Populating an International Web-Based Randomized Trials Register in the Social, Behavioral, Criminological, and Education Sciences (2003) (27)
Place Randomized Trials (2010) (25)
Black and White Freshmen Entering Four-Year Colleges. (1969) (23)
Key concepts for making informed choices (2019) (22)
Associations between the Youth/Adolescent Questionnaire, the Youth/Adolescent Activity Questionnaire, and body mass index z score in low-income inner-city fourth through sixth grade children. (2008) (22)
A “Link” System for Assuring Confidentiality of Research Data in Longitudinal Studies1 (1970) (22)
Randomization and field experimentation (1985) (21)
Encouraging the flight of error: Ethical standards, evidence standards, and randomized trials (2007) (21)
The Future of Controlled Randomized Experiments: A Briefing (1994) (21)
8: Implications of Educational Evaluation for Evaluation Policy (1979) (21)
The Black Student in American Colleges. (1969) (21)
Quality of Evidence: Usefulness in Measuring the Quality of Health Care (2004) (21)
Reanalyzing program evaluations (1983) (19)
A Mandated Appraisal of Evaluation Practices: Digest of Recommendations to the Congress and the Department of Education (1981) (19)
Strategies for eliciting and merging confidential social research data (1972) (19)
Notes On the Contamination Method (1977) (19)
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy (2009) (18)
Challenges in the research ethics review of cluster randomized trials: International survey of investigators (2013) (18)
On ensuring the availability of evaluative data for secondary analysis (1978) (17)
Seven kinds of randomization plans for designing field experiments (1985) (17)
The null hypothesis is not called that for nothing: statistical tests in randomized trials (2007) (17)
Reanalyzing Program Evaluations: Policies and Practices for Secondary Analysis of Social and Educational Programs. (1983) (16)
Variability in research ethics review of cluster randomized trials: a scenario-based survey in three countries (2014) (16)
Survey of consent practices in cluster randomized trials: Improvements are needed in ethical conduct and reporting (2014) (16)
Learning at the bottom of the pyramid : Science, measurement, and policy in low-income countries (2018) (16)
The Virtues of Randomness. (2002) (15)
IDENTIFYING AND IMPLEMENTING EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES SUPPORTED BY RIGOROUS EVIDENCE : A USER FRIENDLY GUIDE December 2003 (2003) (14)
Compelled disclosure of research data (1988) (14)
DOES PLAYING CHESS IMPROVE MATH LEARNING? PROMISING (AND INEXPENSIVE) RESULTS FROM ITALY (2011) (13)
Educational Research and the Confidentiality of Data: A Case Study (1971) (12)
Improving the quality of randomized field experiments: Tricks of the trade (1994) (12)
Assessing the Quality of Longitudinal Surveys (1988) (11)
Randomized controlled trials for evaluation and planning (2009) (10)
Early Childhood Home Visitation Program Models: An Objective Summary of the Evidence About Which Are Effective (2009) (10)
The Faculty Role in Campus Unrest. (1969) (9)
Overcoming the Challenges: A Response to Alan H. Schoenfeld’s “What Doesn’t Work” (2006) (9)
Randomized experiments for evaluating and planning local programs: a summary on appropriateness and feasibility. (1979) (8)
Educational Program Evaluations (1979) (8)
Lessons From the Rockefeller Foundation's Experiments On the Minority Female Single Parent Program (1988) (7)
Ethical Issues and Approaches in AIDS Research (2002) (7)
Why the compensatory education evaluation was useful (1984) (7)
Survey Research Designs: Towards a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits (1986) (7)
Reporting of patient consent in healthcare cluster randomised trials is associated with the type of study interventions and publication characteristics (2012) (7)
To Randomize or Not to Randomize? That is the Question (2019) (7)
How Is National Assessment of Educational Progress Used? Results of an Exploratory Study. (1983) (6)
Measurement Error in Social and Educational Survey Research. (1972) (6)
Sharing Confidential and Sensitive Data (1991) (6)
Teacher Churn in Missouri’s Five Biggest Cities, 2005-2014: A Briefing (2014) (6)
Educational Research and the Confidentiality of Data. (1969) (6)
The First Year of College: A Follow-up Normative Report (1970) (6)
Recommendations To Congress and Their Rationale (1983) (6)
To Flop Is Human: Inventing Better Scientific Approaches to Anticipating Failure (2015) (6)
Are There Metrics for MOOCS From Social Media (2015) (6)
An illustrative project on secondary analysis (1978) (6)
Ideas About Social Research, Evaluation, and Statistics in Medieval Arabic Literature (1984) (6)
Panel on the Evaluation of AIDS Interventions (1991) (5)
Conducting social experiments (1987) (5)
The Use of Selection Modeling to Evaluate AIDS Interventions with Observational Data (1991) (5)
Evaluating Media Campaigns (1991) (5)
Toward Evidence-Based Criminology and Criminal Justice: The Campbell Collaboration (2001) (5)
Randomized and Observational Approaches to Evaluating the Effectiveness of AIDS Prevention Programs (1991) (5)
Experimental Tests in Education: Recommendations from the Holtzman Report (1982) (5)
Science in liberal arts colleges: A longitudinal study of 49 selective colleges (1972) (5)
Appendix B: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs in Taxpayer Compliance Research (1989) (5)
Conducting social experiments (1987) (5)
Deploying randomized field experiments in the service of evidence-based crime policy (2012) (5)
Randomized controlled trials (2017) (5)
In Search of Terra Firma: Administrative Records on Teachers' Positional Instability across Subjects, Grades, and Schools and the Implications for Deploying Randomized Controlled Trials (2016) (5)
Violence prevention strategies targeted at the general population of minority youth. (1991) (4)
What Works in Developing Nations to Get Children Into School or Keep Them There? (2015) (4)
Bringing the Vote to Residents of Long-Term Care Facilities: A Study of the Benefits and Challenges of Mobile Polling (2011) (4)
The Ecological Fallacy in Comparative and International Education Research: Discovering More From TIMSS Through Multilevel Modeling (2003) (4)
Sequential Flow. Excerpt from unpublished manuscript, Life cycle of a million MOOC users. (2014) (4)
EXTENSIONS OF A MULTITRAIT-MULTIMETHOD MODEL TO EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. (1970) (3)
Resolving Ethical Issues in Randomised Controlled Trials (2012) (3)
Quick Read Synopsis (2005) (3)
The teaching of evaluation in psychology: Northwestern University (1986) (3)
Randomized Field Trials in Education (2003) (3)
Training program evaluators (1980) (3)
Ambient Positional Instability Among Ohio Math and Science Teachers: 2008 to 2014 (2015) (3)
Ambient Positional Instability Among Core Subject Arkansas Public School Teachers: Interim Report (2016) (3)
Ambient Positional Instability in New Jersey Public Schools: 1996-1997 to 2011-2012 (2016) (3)
Design‐based evaluations: process studies, experiments, and quasi‐experiements (1998) (3)
The program review team approach and multisite experiments: The spouse assault replication program (1991) (3)
A TRIALIST’S NOTES ON EVALUATION THEORY AND ROOTS (2005) (3)
A procedure for estimating the amount of trait, method and error variance attributable to a measure (1968) (3)
Privacy of Individuals in Social Research: Confidentiality (2001) (3)
Mathematische Methoden zur Sicherung der Vertraulichkeit und Anonymität von Forschungsdaten / Mathematical Methods to Assure Confidentiality and Anonymity of Research Data (1973) (3)
Commentaries on Replication in Prevention Science: A Rejoinder (2011) (2)
PROBLEMS IN RESEARCH UTILIZATION: USE OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS, EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AND AUXILIARY DATA IN EXPERIMENTS * (1973) (2)
On the use of police officers in randomized experiments: some lessons from the Milwaukee domestic violence experiment (1996) (2)
Security of information processing: implications from social research (1972) (2)
Street walking: randomized controlled trials in criminology, education, and elsewhere (2015) (2)
Mitigating Ethical Conflicts in Dual Mission Government Agencies (1988) (2)
Evidential problems in social program evaluation and their analogs from engineering and the physical sciences, medicine, and an assortment of other disciplines (1981) (2)
Ambient Positional Instability Among Illinois Teachers, AY 2007-2012: A Briefing (2016) (2)
Washington State Public Teachers' Ambient Positional Instability From A Statistical Approach of Retrospective Study & Prospective Study (2017) (2)
BoruchEducationInterventions in developing nations for improving primary and secondary school enrolments (2016) (2)
Ambient Positional Instability Among Teachers in Minnesota Public Schools: 2010-2011 to 2014-2015 (2016) (2)
America’s Youngest Kindergarteners’ Elevated Levels of Internalizing Problems at School Entry and Beyond: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (2012) (2)
The student, evaluative data, and secondary analysis (1980) (2)
Meta‐Analyses, Systematic Reviews, and Evaluation Syntheses (2015) (2)
What are the effects of Teach For America on Math, English Language Arts, and Science outcomes of K–12 students in the USA? (2018) (2)
Measurement of Outcomes (1991) (2)
Solutions to Ethical and Legal Problems in Social Research. (1985) (2)
Taxes, tax expenditures, and evaluation—pleasing and otherwise (1998) (2)
Reactions to Criticism of the Holtzman Report (1981) (2)
What Works Clearinghouse, United States (2007) (2)
Statistical Strategies for Preserving Privacy in Direct Inquiry (1982) (2)
The Use of Regression Discontinuity Model with Criterion-Referenced Testing in the Evaluation of Compensatory Education. (1977) (1)
Coupling Literature and Statistics (1987) (1)
Report from the United States: The Privacy Act of 1974 and the Social Sciences Need for Access to Data. (1978) (1)
Randomized Trials in Education Research by Frederick Mosteller and (2003) (1)
Should private agencies maintain federal research data? (1984) (1)
A Program for Testing Hypotheses About Correlation Arrays (1970) (1)
Lessons from working across fields to develop a framework for informed choices (2022) (1)
Beyond the Laboratory or Classroom (2005) (1)
Predictors of National Differences in Mathematics and Science Achievement of Eighth-Grade Students: Data from TIMSS (2013) (1)
Sampling and Randomization: Technical Questions about Evaluating CDC's Three Major AIDS Prevention Programs (1991) (1)
1. Introduction and Background (1979) (1)
Record Linkage in Longitudinal and Correlational Research: Its Justification and Implications for Individual Privacy. (1976) (1)
How policy informs the evidence. Lessons have also been learnt in disciplines outside medicine. (2001) (1)
Methods for Assuring Personal Integrity in Social Research: an Introduction (1979) (1)
Program Evaluation Policy, Practice, and the Use of Results (2016) (1)
Factors influencing student choice of college and course of study (1970) (1)
Toward a Science of Failure Analysis: A Narrative Review (2021) (1)
Design and Implementation of Evaluation Research (1991) (1)
Chapter VI: The President's Mandate: Discovering What Works and What Works Better (1991) (1)
A Class of Administrative Models for Maintaining Anonymity During Merge of Data Files. A Draft. (1971) (0)
The Virtues of Randomness: For Years, Researchers Have Used Randomized Field Trials to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Medical Procedures. (Feature) (2002) (0)
Identifying, Engaging, and Maintaining Contact With Target Individuals (1997) (0)
3. On the Need to Assure Confidentiality and on Privacy (1979) (0)
Randomization and Field Experimentation (New Direction for Program Evaluations, no. 28). (1987) (0)
8. Legal Assurances of Confidentiality (1979) (0)
[Experimental Tests in Education: Recommendations from the Holtzman Report]: Rejoinder (1982) (0)
Successes and Failures of Constructivism: A Continuing Discussion. (2009) (0)
Observation and Measurement (1997) (0)
Evidence-Based Reform: Key To Major Gains in Education, Poverty Reduction, Crime Prevention, and Other Areas of Social Policy (2014) (0)
Estimating the Effects of Interventions in Multiple Sites and Settings: Place-based Randomized Trials (2016) (0)
4. Procedural Methods (1979) (0)
TITLE Record-Linkage in Longitudinal and Correlational Research : Its Justification and Implications for Individual (2011) (0)
Evaluating HIV Testing and Counseling Projects (1991) (0)
Dropout Prevention Studies in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014) (0)
Romeo and Juliet: Fate, Chance or Choice? (1988) (0)
Beyond the Use of NAEP: Lessons for Increasing the Use of State and Local Assessment Results. (1982) (0)
On Annual Educational Indicators: A Review of the "Condition of Education.". (1983) (0)
We do have a few suggested revisions which, although in the nature of refinement, may be critical to the Fund's success. Our suggestions, and reasons for offering them, are as follows: (2009) (0)
7. Publication of Statistical Tables (1979) (0)
Overlooked Strategies To Reduce Health Care Costs (2009) (0)
Liaison Representatives to the Panel from the U.S. Public Health Service (1991) (0)
Can We Invent Better Scientific Approaches to Anticipating Failure to Meet Expectations in Randomized Controlled Trials and to Learn from the Failure ? (2012) (0)
America’s Youngest Kindergarteners’ Elevated Levels of Internalizing Problems at School Entry and Beyond: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (2012) (0)
Reply to Wiebe et al. (2015) (0)
Problem We Seek To Address: Federal social programs, set up to address important U.S. problems, often fall short by funding models/strategies ("interventions") that are not effective. (2010) (0)
9. Perspective, Summary, and Policy Implications (1979) (0)
What have we learned about randomized social experiments over the last decade (1987) (0)
On Solutions to Some Privacy Problems Engendered by Federal Regulation and Social Custom (2019) (0)
The Purposes of Social Experimentation (1974) (0)
Experimental Design: Randomization and Social Experiments (2015) (0)
Experiments in the Context of Evaluation (1997) (0)
In Honor of Carol Hirschon Weiss (2013) (0)
The Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Surveys@@@Survey Research Designs: Towards a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits (1987) (0)
The Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Surveys@@@Survey Research Designs: Towards a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits (1987) (0)
Reduce the Explosive Growth in U.S. Health Care Costs Board of Advisors (2011) (0)
VIOLENCE (1997) (0)
PROTOCOL: The effects of K‐12 school enrollment interventions in developing nations (2010) (0)
Deploying randomized field experiments in the service of evidence-based crime policy (2012) (0)
Information Communication Technologies and Research in Developing Countries (2017) (0)
2. On Record Linkage and the Need for Identifiers in Research (1979) (0)
Collaborative Contracting Strategy (1991) (0)
Henry W. Riecken Jr. (1917-2012). (2013) (0)
5. Statistical Strategies in Direct Inquiry (1979) (0)
TO: Honorable Mary K. Wakefield Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration Honorable David A. Hansell Acting Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families RE: Comments on Proposed Evidence Criteria in HHS Home Visitation Initiative (2010) (0)
A Note on Stability of Self-Reported Protest Activity and Attitudes. (1972) (0)
Oversight and Coordination Strategy (1991) (0)
Ancillary, Emerging, and Related Projects (1991) (0)
6. Secondary Analysis and Audit of Social Science Data (1979) (0)
Protocol for a Systematic Review: Teach For America (TFA) for Improving Math, Language Arts, and Science Achievement of Primary and Secondary Students in the United States: A Systematic Review (2016) (0)
Teach For America (TFA) for Improving Math, Language Arts, and Science Achievement of Primary and Secondary Students in the United States: A Systematic Review (2016) (0)
Project on Secondary Analysis, 1979-82. Final Report. Report No. A-95. (1983) (0)
Comments (2005) (0)
What Have We Learned About Randomized Social Experiments Over the Last Decade? (1987) (0)
A CDC—3600 Program for Computation of Maximum Phi When Observations Are Misclassified (1972) (0)
Evaluating Health Education and Risk Reduction Projects (1991) (0)
The Appearance of Statistical Ideas in Prose, Poetry, and Drama: A Dictionary of Quotations, Aphorisms, Apothegms, Excerpts and Epigrams (2018) (0)
Research in Pursuit of Excellence: Report of the Study Group on Schooling. (Draft.). (1983) (0)
Medical device reporting. A pilot study of nurses. (1989) (0)
Street walking: randomized controlled trials in criminology, education, and elsewhere (2015) (0)
Ethics, Law, and Randomized Experiments (1997) (0)
Predictors of National Differences in Mathematics and Science Achievement: Data From TIMSS for Eighth Grade Students (2002) (0)
Advancing knowledge about replication in criminology (2018) (0)
Population, Power, and Pipeline (1997) (0)
The administration of a congressionally mandated study at federal, state, and local levels of government (1983) (0)
Randomization Plans and Processes (1997) (0)
The Governance of the National Assessment of Educational Progress: A Brief Review and Some Options. Report No. A-158-5. (1982) (0)

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