SySTEMic Innovations

Researchers Leigh Anne Taylor Knight (KC-AERC) and Sarah Frazelle (KC-AERC) have partnered with SySTEMic Innovations to achieve the following objectives:

• Design a model to test academic and attitudinal changes in students in classrooms of teachers using science kits after professional development with SySTEMic;
• Select instruments to pre-assess and post-assess science academic skills and attitudes of identified students participating in the program 2011-12 school year;
• Design a model to test academic and attitudinal changes of teachers using science kits after professional development with SySTEMic;
• Select instruments to pre-assess and post-assess science academic skills and attitudes of identified teachers participating in the program 2011-12 school year;
• Assist SySTEMic Innovations with identifying the demographic characteristics of students and teachers to be collected for purposes of the study;
• Convert assessment instruments for students and teachers to electronic format;
• Deliver a summary report of the pre- and post-assessments to SySTEMic Innovations.

• Research

• • Math Matters: Transition from K-12 to Post-secondary Education
  • Kansas City Teen Plaza Issues
  • KC STEM Alliance Evaluation - October 2011
  • SySTEMic Innovations
  • Kansas City Freedom Schools Initiative

• • Algebra Study
  • Kansas City Teacher Labor Market Project
  • Transition to Higher Education
  • Value Added Modeling

Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium