| Session Title: A Conversation With Will Shadish |
| Expert Lecture Session 292 to be held in Panzacola Section G1 on Thursday, Nov 12, 1:40 PM to 3:10 PM |
| Sponsored by the AEA Conference Committee |
| Chair(s): |
| Michael Hendricks, Independent Consultant, mikehendri@aol.com |
| Presenter(s): |
| William Shadish, University of California Merced, wshadish@ucmerced.edu |
| Abstract: William R. Shadish is one of the foremost intellectual leaders of our field. He has authored several books and scores of articles on evaluation, edited New Directions for Evaluation, and received awards for his contributions to theory (from AEA) and methodology (from the Policy Studies Organization). He is also a fine person, and this is a golden opportunity to have a free-flowing intellectual exchange. Are you interested in causal logic? Will co-wrote Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference. Ethics? Will chaired the task force that developed the AEA Guiding Principles. The origins of our field? Will co-edited Foundations of Program Evaluation. Our future? Will co-edited Evaluation for the 21st Century. Will's latest interest, where he is pioneering novel new techniques, is whether quasi-experimental designs - and even non-experimental ones -- can be as accurate as randomized experiments. Will says, "Yes, sometimes". Come enjoy talking with Will Shadish. |