Our shared goal is to improve P-20 education for all students in the Kansas City metropolitan area by providing powerful tools for data-driven educational policy research, evaluation, and implementation.
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) are researching flash mobs: definitions, causes, implications, and results. The research, funded by the Kauffman Foundation and the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, involves focus groups and a survey of Kansas … 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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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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