William Raymond Shadish Jr. (November 3, 1949 – March 27, 2016) was an American psychologist and statistician who was a distinguished professor and founding faculty member at the

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. He was known for his work in the field of behavioral science, especially on the topics of program evaluation,

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, and the study of

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Early life and education

Shadish was born on November 3, 1949, in

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, to William Shadish Sr. and Maryjane Cartmell. Shadish Jr.'s father was a

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veteran who spent 30 months as a

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. Shadish Jr. was raised in

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, and received his

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from

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in 1972. He went on to attend

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, where he received his master's degree and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1975 and 1978, respectively.

Career

After teaching at the

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for many years, Shadish joined the faculty of the

(UC-Merced) in 2003. There, he designed the psychology major at the then-brand-new university, which did not have any students or buildings when he first joined its faculty. He also led the process that created the Ph.D. in psychology program at UC-Merced. He became the second ever distinguished professor at UC-Merced, and received the Distinguished Research Award from their Academic Senate in 2011.

Affiliations with learned societies

Shadish was the founding secretary-treasurer of the

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, later serving as its president from 2013 to 2014. He was also elected president of the

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in 1996, and of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology in 2014. He was a fellow of the

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Awards

Shadish received the 1994

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Award for Evaluation Theory and the 2000 Robert Ingle Award from the American Evaluation Association. He also received two Outstanding Research Publication Awards (in 1994 and 1996) from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the 2002

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Award for Innovations in Methodology from the

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, and the 2009

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Award for Lifetime Contributions to Systematic Reviews from the Campbell Collaboration.

Death

Shadish died at his home in Mariposa, California, on March 27, 2016, of complications from

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References

External links

Faculty page
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Issue of the ''American Journal of Evaluation'' containing a section in Shadish's memory
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