Research Projects & Staff

We currently have many ongoing research projects some of which are highlighted below. I believe it is very important to maintain collaborations with various partnering institutions, therefore some of my research projects are not only located at MSU but also at the University of Chicago, the National Opinion Research Center, and Learning Point Associates to name a few.

• The Data Research and Development Center (DRDC) is a research and technical center funded by the U.S. Federal Government’s Interagency Education Research Initiative. As a research center, we work to understand the factors that are essential for scaling-up promising educational models, programs, and strategies. As a technical center, we work to identify – and develop plans to address – the methodological and other challenges that arise when conducting research on scaling. More Information: http://drdc.uchicago.edu/
  
  
• Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work
  Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Center seeks to examine how working families make investments in time and resources, how these choices are made, the effects these investments have on the quality of relationships in the household, and the resulting socialization of school-age children and adolescents. The Center's work focuses on analyzing existing databases as well as conducting original data collections. The Center has conducted intensive interviews with five hundred working families to investigate more fully the social and economic contexts that impact family investments and the quality of relationships in both the household and the workplace. More information: http://www.sloanworkingfamilies.org/
  
  
• The REL-Midwest Task 1.2 fast response project
  In 2006 Professor Schneider directed a program of work undertaken in collaboration with researchers at NORC at the University of Chicago for the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) – Midwest, Using Multiple Levels of Data to Address Educational Issues in the Region. Authorized SEA officials can click here to access the data inventory prepared for their state as part of this applied research and development project.
  
  

Staff - Our Team
Senior Investigator
Barbara Schneider