William Trochim
Professor
2008
PAM

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Current Activities

Current Professional Activities
Past-President, American Evaluation Association
Chair, American Evaluation Association's Evaluation Policy Task Force 
Chair, Definitions Interest Group, National Evaluation Workgroup, Clinical and Translational Science Awards, NIH

Current Research Activities
NIH research:

Director of Evaluation, Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Research Center.
Development of systems for evaluation of large research initiatives
Systems Thinking in Public Health
Translational research and the Integration of Research and Practice
Community-Based Participatory Concept Mapping for Planning & Evaluation

NSF research:

Systems Evaluation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education programs

Current Extension Activities
Director of Evaluation for Extension and Outreach

Biography

Biographical Statement
Dr. Trochim received his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University in the area of Methodology and Evaluation Research. His research is in the area of applied social research methodology, with an emphasis on program planning and evaluation methods. He is known for the development of a number of methodologies in the behavioral, social and medical sciences. He has written a number of books, including several widely used introductory research methods texts, and articles that have appeared in American Journal of Evaluation, New Directions for Program Evaluation, Evaluation and Program Planning, Evaluation Review, the American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Controlled Clinical Trials, Performance Improvement, and Medical Decision Making, among others. For 2009 he is the Past-President of the American Evaluation Association (AEA), has served multiple terms on its Board of Directors and is the Chair of the AEA Evaluation Policy Task Force. Dr. Trochim is the developer of the concept mapping methodology and software that is offered through Concept Systems Incorporated.

Prof. Trochim is the Director of Evaluation for the Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center -- a collaboration of Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Hospital for Special Surgery, Hunter College and Cornell Cooperative Extension -- and participates actively in the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Awards national evaluation. He is developing evaluation systems for the HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Networks of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He is actively engaged in research with the National Science Foundation incorporating systems approaches in the evaluation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education programs. And, as Director of Evaluation for Extension and Outreach, Prof. Trochim works with Cornell University Cooperative Extension programs throughout New York State on planning and implementing evaluation systems for their outreach and education programs.



Education
1977-1980 Ph.D. Methodology and Evaluation Research
Division of Methodology and Evaluation Research
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

1973-1975 M.A. with Honors, General Experimental Psychology
Department of Psychology
Southern Connecticut University
New Haven, Connecticut

1970-1973 B.A. Psychology
Loyola University (Mundelein College)
Chicago, Illinois


Administrative Responsibilities
Director, Cornell Office for Research on Evaluation

Director of Evaluation, Weill Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center

Director of Evaluation for Extension and Outreach

Courses, Websites, Pubs

Selected Publications
Quinlan, K. M., Kane, M., & Trochim, W. (2008). Evaluation of large research initiatives: Outcomes, challenges, and methodological considerations. New Directions for Evaluation, 118, 61-72.

Leischow, S. J., Best, A., Trochim, W. M., Clark, P. I., Gallagher, R. S., Marcus, S. E., Matthews, E. (2008). Systems Thinking to Improve the Public's Health. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(2, Supplement 1), S196-S203.

Best, A., Trochim, W., Haggerty, J., Moor, G., & Norman, C. (2008). Systems Thinking for Knowledge Integration: New Models for Policy-Research Collaboration. In L. McKee, E. Ferlie & P. Hyde (Eds.), Organizing and Reorganizing: Power and Change in Health Care Organizations (pp. 154-166). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Trochim. W., Marcus, S.E., Mâsse, L.C., Moser, R.P., Weld, P. (2008). The Evaluation of Large Research Initiatives: A Participatory Integrative Mixed-Methods Approach, American Journal of Evaluation, 29, 1, 8-28.

Kane, M., & Trochim, W. (2007). Concept mapping for planning and evaluation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Trochim, W. and Donnelly, J.P. (2007). The Research Methods Knowledge Base. 3rd edition. Thomson Publishing, Mason, OH.

Best, A., Clark, P.I., Leischow, S.J. and Trochim, W. (Eds). (2007). Greater than the sum: Systems thinking in tobacco control. Tobacco Control Monograph no. 18, Bethesda, MD., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 06-6085.

Bammer, G., Cabrera, D. and Trochim, W. (2007). Systems thinking: Potential to transform tobacco control. In National Cancer Institute (2007), Greater than the sum: Systems thinking in tobacco control. Tobacco Control Monograph no. 18, Bethesda, MD., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 06-6085. pps. 37-60.

Cabrera, D. and Trochim, W. (2007). How to organize: Systems Organizing. In National Cancer Institute (2007), Greater than the sum: Systems thinking in tobacco control. Tobacco Control Monograph no. 18, Bethesda, MD., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, NIH Pub. No. 06-6085. pps. 61-108.

Trochim, W. M., Cabrera, D. A., Milstein, B., Gallagher, R. S., & Leischow, S. J. (2006). Practical challenges of systems thinking and modeling in public health. Am J Public Health, 96(3), 538-546.

Trochim, W. (2005). Research Methods: The Concise Knowledge Base. Cincinnatti, OH: Atomic Dog Publishers.

Trochim, W., Milstein, B., Wood, B., Jackson, S., and Pressler, V.  (2004). Setting Objectives for Community and Systems Change: An Application of Concept Mapping for Planning a Statewide Health Improvement Initiative, Health Promotion Practice, 5(1): 8-19.

Trochim, W., Stillman, F., Clark, P., and Schmitt, C. (2003). Development of a Model of the Tobacco Industry's Interference with Tobacco Control Programs. Tobacco Control, 12: 140-147.

Jackson, K., and Trochim, W.  (2002). Concept mapping as an alternative approach for the analysis of open-ended survey responses.  Organizational Research Methods, 5(4): 307-336.