Thomas D. Cook

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Thomas D. Cook
Born
Thomas Dixon Cook

(1941-07-31) 31 July 1941 (age 79)
Citizenship United Kingdom
United States
Education Oxford University
Stanford University
Known for Program evaluation
Social science research methods
AwardsPeter H. Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2012)
Scientific career
Fields Sociology
Institutions Northwestern University
Mathematica Policy Research
Thesis Attitude change as a function of the interaction of reception and source competence  (1967)

Thomas Dixon Cook (born 31 July 1941) [1] is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northwestern University and Emeritus Fellow at their Institute for Policy Research, where he was formerly the Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair of Ethics and Justice. [2] In 2014, he became a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research. [3]

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Honors and awards

Cook received the Myrdal Prize for Science from the American Evaluation Association in 1982 and the Donald Campbell Prize for Innovative Methodology from the Policy Sciences Organization in 1988. He was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1997-1998. In 2000, he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he became a Margaret Mead Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2002. He received the Peter H. Rossi Award for Contributions to the Theory or Practice of Program Evaluation from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in 2012. [1] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Thomas Dixon Cook CV" (PDF). Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  2. "Northwestern Emeritus Sociology Professor to Give Lecture Friday on Program Evaluation". University of Arkansas News. 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  3. Mark, Melvin M.; Caracelli, Valerie; McNall, Miles A.; Miller, Robin Lin (2017-08-29). "The Oral History of Evaluation". American Journal of Evaluation. 39 (2): 290–304. doi:10.1177/1098214017720066. ISSN   1098-2140. S2CID   149398550.
  4. "Peter H. Rossi Award". APPAM. Retrieved 2019-01-26.