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• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Stanford University, 1976
• M.A., Education, Stanford University, 1972
• B.A., Psychology, Wellesley College, 1971

Key Professional Appointments

• Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999--
• Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, 1983-1999
• Assistant, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Rhode Island, 1977-1983

Activities & Honors

• Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, American Educational Research Association, 2010- present
• Alva Myrdal Guest Professor, Department of Education and Culture, Eskilstuna Sweden, Malardalen University, 2008-2009
• R. Stewart Jones Award for the Outstanding Teacher in Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, 2006
• Distinguished Senior Scholar, College of Education, 2003
• Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award, for contributions to evaluation theory, American Evaluation Association, 2003

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Evaluation: Field-Testing and Disseminating an Educative, Values-Engaged Approach to Evaluating STEM Education Programs, National Science Foundation, 2006
• Co-Principal Investigator, Center Evaluation, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, 2005
• Principal Investigator, Internal Evaluation: Spring 2005, Center for African Studies, 2005
• Co-Principal Investigator, 12-Step Participation After Adolescent Treatment, National Institutes of Health, 2005
• Co-Principal Investigator, Illinois Project for Democratic Accountability, Campus Research Board, 2004
• Principal Investigator, An Evaluation Plan for the 2003 Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association, U.S. Department of Education (American Evaluation Association), 2003
• Principal Investigator, An Evaluation of the EPICS, K-12 Program at UIUC, National Science Foundation (College of Engineering), 2003
• Co-Principal Investigator, Evaluation of the APPEALS Training, U.S. Department Veterans Administration (Leads Corporation), 1998

Selected Publications

• Greene, J.C., Sommerfeld, P., &  Haight, W.L. (2010). Mixing methods in social work research. In Shaw, I., Briar-Lawson, K., Orme, J., & Ruckdeschel, R. (eds.), The SAGE handbook of social work research. London: Sage.
• Greene, J.C., & Hall, J.N. (2010). Dialectics and pragmatism: Being of consequence. In A. Tashakkori and C. Teddlie (eds.), Sage handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research, second edition (pp. 119-143). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.
• Greene, J.C. (2010). Evaluation in service of the public good: The views of one US American evaluator. Zeitschrift fur Evaluation [the journal of the German Evaluation Society], 9(2), 199-210.
• Greene, J.C. (in press). The construct(ion) of validity as argument. In H. Chen, S. Donaldson, and M.M. Mark (eds.), Beyond the traditional validity model: Alternative views and options for program evaluation. New Directions for Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Greene, J. C. (2009). Evidence as “proof” and evidence as “inkling.” In S. I. Donaldson, C. A. Christie, & M. M. Mark (Eds.), What counts as credible evidence in applied research and evaluation practice? (pp. 153-167). Thousand Oaks CA: Sage.