Dr. Russell Gersten is executive director of Instructional Research Group, a nonprofit educational research institute, as well as professor emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. Main areas of expertise include instructional research on ELLs, reading comprehension research and evaluation methodology. In 2002, Dr. Gersten received the Distinguished Special Education Researcher Award from the American Educational Research Association’ s Special Education Research Division. He currently serves as Principal Investigator for the What Works Clearinghouse on the topic of instructional research on ELLs, and was recently appointed to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel, a Presidential committee created to develop research-based policy in mathematics for American schools.
Dr. Gersten has over 150 publications in scientific journals such as Review of Educational Research, American Educational Research Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, Educational Leadership and Exceptional Children. He is the senior author of a forthcoming Best Practice Guide for Teaching ELLS, and is currently the principle investigator of three large Institute of Education Sciences (IES) projects involving randomized trials in the areas of Reading First professional development, reading comprehension research and early mathematics curricula.
