Mary Lee Smith
{{Short description|American researcher known for using meta-analysis for reporting research outcomes}}
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| birth_name = Mary Lee Smith
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| nationality = American
| alma mater = University of Colorado Boulder
| occupation = Professor, academic researcher
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| known_for = Meta-analysis
| notable_works =The Benefits of Psychotherapy
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Mary Lee Smith is an American researcher and academic, whose work spanned across fields from psychology, to research methodology, to education reform. She is a Regents' Professor Emeritus of education policy and measurement, statistics, and research methodology at Arizona State University.{{cite web | title= Mary Lee Smith | url= http://nepc.colorado.edu/author/smith-mary-lee | website= National Education Policy Center | date= January 2004 | accessdate = January 16, 2016}} Smith, along with Gene Glass, were known for their pioneering work in using meta-analyses for reporting research outcomes.
Education
Smith attended the University of Colorado Boulder on a scholarship for her undergraduate studies. Going against advice to become a high school teacher, Smith returned to the University of Colorado Boulder to earn a PhD in counseling psychology.{{cite web | title= Mary Lee Smith | url= https://education.asu.edu/faculty/mary-lee-smith | website= Arizona State University, ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College | date= 2004 | accessdate = January 10, 2016}}
Career
Following her doctorate, Smith joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in research methodology. There, she worked closely with Gene Glass in incorporating meta-analyses into research. Interviews conducted by Morton Hunt revealed that Smith worked along Glass in locating the studies, constructing the sample, assessing the materials, coding, and calculating effect sizes.{{cite book |last=Hunt |first=Morton |date=1997 |title=How Science Takes Stock: The Story of Meta-Analysis |location=New York |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |page=29 |isbn=0871543893}}{{cite journal |last1=Dickersin |first1=K |year=2015 |title=Innovation and cross-fertilization in systematic reviews and meta-analysis: The influence of women investigators |journal=Res Synth Methods |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=277–283 |pmid=26096969 |doi=10.1002/jrsm.1147}} Smith and Glass were later co-principal investigators on several important studies using meta-analyses in psychology,{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=ML |last2=Glass |first2=GV |year=1977 |title=Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies
|journal=Am Psychol |volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=752–760 |pmid=921048 |doi=10.1037/0003-066x.32.9.752}} and together with Thomas Miller, published the book Benefits of Psychotherapy in 1980.
Later on, Smith became a faculty member at Arizona State University, where her research interests focused on school and education policy. She has published numerous publications on education policy, and published the book, Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools in 2003.
Selected publications
- {{cite journal
|last1=Smith |first1=ML
|last2=Glass |first2=GV
|year=1977
|title=Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies
|journal=Am Psychol
|volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=752–760
|pmid=921048 |doi=10.1037/0003-066x.32.9.752
}}
- {{cite journal
|last1=Smith |first1=ML
|year=1980
|title=Sex bias in counseling and psychotherapy
|journal=Psychol Bull
|volume=87 |issue=2 |pages=392–407
|pmid=7375605
|doi=10.1037/0033-2909.87.2.392
}}
- {{cite book
|last1=Smith |first1=Mary Lee
|last2=Glass |first2=Gene V.
|last3=Miller |first3=Thomas I.
|year=1980
|title=The Benefits of Psychotherapy
|location=Baltimore
|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press
|isbn=0801823528
}}
- {{cite book
|last1=Smith |first1=Mary Lee
|last2=Miller-Kahn |first2=Linda
|last3=Heinecke |first3=Walter
|last4=Jarvis |first4=Patricia F.
|year=2003
|title=Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
|location=New York
|publisher=Routledge
|isbn=0415932017
}}
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Category:21st-century American psychologists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)