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| RONALD
GALLIMORE,
Ph.D. is Chief Scientist Emeritus at the LessonLab Research Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. His doctoral and masters degrees are from Northwestern and his bachelors degree is from the University of Arizona. He taught at California State University, Long Beach and University of Hawaii before joining the faculty at UCLA in 1971. In 1966 he was appointed Research Psychologist, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum and Co-Director of the Hawaiian Community Research Project. The community project provided data that he and Roland Tharp used in 1969 to design and construct a laboratory school for Native Hawaiian children (Kamehameha Elementary Education Project, KEEP). For their work on KEEP and their book Rousing Minds to Life, he and Tharp were presented the 1993 Grawemeyer Award in Education. With Reese and Goldenberg he has directed a longitudinal study of immigrant Latino students and their families since 1988. He collaborated with Goldenberg and Saunders on longitudinal school and teaching improvement studies from 1985 to the present. In 1993, the International Reading Association presented Goldenberg and Gallimore the Albert J. Harris award for their article "Local knowledge, Research Knowledge, & Educational Change: A Case Study of Early Spanish Reading Improvement" which appeared in Educational Researcher (1991, Volume 20, (8), pp. 2-14). He received in 1992 a University of California Presidential Award for research contributing to the improvement of public schools. In 1998, together with Jim Stigler, he co-founded LessonLab. Ron helped direct the 1999 TIMSS Video Study and currently oversees all research conducted at LLRI. |
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