Michael Scriven
Western Michigan University
1993—
Email: scriven@aol.com
Michael Scriven took honors degrees in mathematics and then in the
philosophy
of mathematical logic from the University of Melbourne, obtained his
doctorate in philosophy at Oxford, and has taught in the US and Australia, in
departments of mathematics, philosophy, psychology, the history & philosophy
of science, and education, at Swarthmore College, Indiana University, the
Universities of Minnesota, Western Australia, and San Francisco, and for
twelve years at the University of California/Berkeley. He has also held
fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo
Alto), the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology (University of
Alberta), the Educational Testing Service (Princeton), the Center for the
Study of Democratic Institutions (Santa Barbara), and as a Whitehead Fellow
at Harvard University.
His 300+ publications are mainly in the fields of his
appointments and in the areas of critical thinking, technology studies,
computer studies, and evaluation. He is or has been on the editorial boards
of 42 journals in these fields and some others such as psychiatry, and has
edited several of them, including University MicroNews. He is an
ex-President
of the American Educational Research Association and was the first president
of one of the two associations that merged to become the American Evaluation
Association. He was also the founding editor of its journal and the recipient
of its President's Prize and the AEA's Lazarsfeld Medal. Recent positions
include: Director of a federal project on teacher evaluation at the
Evaluation Center at Western Michigan, Senior Evaluation Fellow (AERA) at the
National Science Foundation, Professor at the Pacific Graduate School of
Psychology and at the University of North Carolina/Greensboro.
He was Professor of Evaluation at the University of Auckland
in New Zealand from 2001 to 2004, while on leave from a chair in psychology at
Claremont Graduate University. Currently, he is Associate Director of
The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University and holds
tenure in the Department of Philosophy.
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