Douglas Fuchs is an Institute Fellow at the American Institutes for Research and a Research Professor in the Departments of Special Education and Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. He has directed 50 federal research grants with which he and colleagues have developed approaches to service delivery (e.g., pre-referral intervention, response-to-intervention); assessments (e.g., measures of student progress monitoring, dynamic assessment); and instruction (e.g., peer-mediated learning strategies). He is the author or co-author of more than 500 articles in peer-review journals and 80 book chapters. He was identified by Thomson Reuters as among the 250 most frequently cited researchers in the social sciences in the United States from 2000-2010. In 2008, he was among “100 Distinguished Alumni” in the first 100 years of the College of Education and Human Development of the University of Minnesota. In 2014, he and Lynn Fuchs received the American Educational Research Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, and in 2021, they were awarded the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.
