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Principal investigators Jackie Spears (K State), Tamera Murdock (UMKC), and Carolyn Barber (UMKC) are exploring factors influencing students who were proficient in high school math courses being enrolled in remedial college math classes. The project, funded by the NSF, employes … Continue reading
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Principal investigators Hyunjin Seo (KU) and Brian Houston (MU) researched flash mobs: definitions, causes, implications, and results. The research, funded by the Kauffman Foundation and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, involved focus groups and a survey of Kansas City … Continue reading
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Researchers Tamera Murdock (UMKC), Carolyn Barber (UMKC), and Leigh Anne Taylor Knight (KC-AERC) are developing methods for evaluating the effect of the Kansas City STEM Alliance on constituent communities. Specifically the team will: work with the KC STEM Alliance to … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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These projects were an all-hands-on-deck KC-AERC undertaking. Contributing researchers included Mark Ehlert (MU), Mike Podgursky (MU), Sarah Frazelle (KU), Tamera Murdock (UMKC), Jackie Spears (K State), and Leigh Anne Taylor Knight (KC-AERC). Final reports, delivered 12/31/11 from KC-AERC to REL … Continue reading
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In the spring of 2011 the Kansas City Freedom Schools Initiative (KCFSI) contracted with the Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium (KC-‐AERC) to assess whether the Freedom Schools summer program had a positive impact on its scholars, both academically and … Continue reading
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Between January 1 and June 30 of 2011, the research team worked to develop methodologies for the KC-STEM Alliance to (1) examine the impact of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), FIRST Robotics and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) … Continue reading
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Contracted by the Kansas City Regional P20 Council, KC-AERC undertook the task of identifying and surveying the educational entities providing services to students from pre-school aged to 20 years of formal schooling in the nine-county region of the Kansas City … Continue reading
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KC-AERC Path To College (49 pages, PDF), presented 03/07/11 by KC-AERC
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Cypress Research Associates, LLC conducted research with key stakeholders on behalf of The Kansas City Area Education Research Consortium (KC-AERC). The goal of the research was determine stakeholder perceptions regarding: Data of interest regarding school district performance and function The … Continue reading
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