Kyra N. Caspary

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Principal Senior Researcher, SRI Education

Kyra Caspary, PhD, studies the educational pathways that prepare youth to achieve their career and life goals. Drawing on her broad methodological expertise, she designs and conducts mixed-methods research studies that provide clients with actionable formative feedback for program improvement as well as evidence of effectiveness. Caspary’s research interests include secondary school transformation, career and technical education (CTE) and work-based learning, and the identification, measurement, and development of the skills and dispositions youth need to succeed in the workforce and postsecondary education.

Caspary is co-principal investigator of SRI’s study of Career Development Opportunities in Los Angeles Unified Schol District, part of the CTE Research Network 2.0 funded by the Institute of Education Sciences. She also co-leads SRI’s evaluation of the Barr Foundation’s Engage New England, a multiyear undertaking to create innovative school models designed to meet the needs of students who are off track to graduate. Caspary’s research on preparation for STEM careers includes a mixed-methods evaluation of a program aimed at increasing preparation for cybersecurity and computer science careers among high school students in Arizona.

Before joining SRI, Caspary conducted research on undergraduate admissions policy for the University of California system and managed the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, an online survey of all enrolled UC undergraduates. As a researcher at PACE (Policy Analysis for California Education), she led a qualitative study of professional development and retention programs for early childhood educators. She began her career in education running a volunteer-based tutoring program at a branch of the Austin Public Library.

Caspary earned her PhD in education from the University of California, Berkeley and holds a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.

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