He is an emeritus professor in the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, a former dean of the Stanford School of Education, and a past president of the American Educational Research Association.
[1] Shavelson earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford.
Before he joined the Stanford faculty, Shavelson was a professor at UCLA and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
[2] He received the E. L. Thorndike Award from the American Psychological Association in 2010; the award recognized his research contributions in educational psychology.
[3] His father was famed screenwriter Mel Shavelson.