Profile of Dale Berger (Draft 1)

Dale Berger is Professor of advanced statistics and psychology in the School of Behavioral and Organizational Studies (SBOS) at Claremont Graduate University.

After receiving his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Dale moved to sunny California and began his career teaching high school level mathematics. During this time, Dale was also working towards his Masters in Psychology at UCLA. After receiving his MS, Dale continued the journey towards his doctorate, being awarded the degree in 1970. 1970 was also the same year Dale joined CGU as a professor.

Dale has performed a great deal of service at CGU since his initial title of ‘visiting professor’ serving as Dean of the School of Organizational and Behavioral Sciences from 1999 to 2001. In Spring 2006 he repeated this honor only this time for the, School of Behavioral and Organizational Studies (really the same school). Additional working titles for Dale included director and chair of SBOS or SOBS. 

Today Dale teaches a range of statistics, research methodology, and data analysis courses, and a cognitive course in the Psychology of Thinking and Problem Solving. A more than competent educator, Dale is regarded as a Rosetta Stone for students’ understanding and development of advanced statistics and research analysis. Students are not the only ones to recognize Dale’s impact as an educator and in 1997 he was recipient of the Western Psychological Association Outstanding Teaching Award. 

Dales research work is equally impressive focusing on research methodology, educational technology, and social and legal control of alcohol-impaired driving. He has authored and co-authored numerous articles in the fields of research methodology, public policy, and cognitive psychology. Dale has a wide range of academic publications in each of these areas, which can be found at http://www.addall.com/author/2594469-1.  

Dale has also directed research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles in addition to consulting various organizations on issues relating to applied data analysis.

In 2006, Dale co-authored the textbook Applied Psychology with fellow CGU faculty Stewart I. Donaldson and Kathy Pezdek. The textbook demonstrates the power of applied psychology to promote human welfare and optimal human functioning as well as the vast career opportunities that exist for those with a psychology education.

Also in 2006 a busy year for him, Dale conducted seven presentations at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association (WPA). Dale was president of this association from 2002 to 2003, which was created for the purpose of stimulating the exchange of scientific and professional ideas and, in so doing to enhance interest in the processes of research and scholarship in the behavioral sciences.  Also in April of 2006 Dale presented at the conference for the Association for Psychological Science, a society for scientific psychology, whose mission is to "promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare." A detailed list of his presentations can be found at http://www.cgu.edu/pages/4207.asp.

Dale has continued educational technology from the early days of the personal computer. In 1986 Dale co-authored Do we really know what makes educational software effective? The article examined the methods used by two software review services in evaluating microcomputer courseware--EPIE (Educational Products Information Exchange) and MicroSIFT (Microcomputer Software and Information for Teachers). That was back in 1986! Today with support from the Mellon Foundation, Dale and his students developed and published a major web site in support of the teaching of statistics called WISE (Web Interface for Statistics Education).  The web site includes tutorials designed around interactive Java applets demonstrating sampling distributions, the Central Limit Theorem, hypotheses testing, statistical power, and signal detection theory.  The website can be accessed at http://wise.cgu.edu. 

A perennial scholar, Dale belongs to a number of different academic associations. Aside from the Association for Psychological Science, where he is a Fellow and Charter member and the Western Psychological Association, where he is a Fellow, Dale also maintains membership for the American Evaluation Association, the American Psychological Association, Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics) and the American Statistical Association.