Summary SRI Education is conducting an evaluation of the Pyramid Model (PM). The PM is a three-tiered framework that provides evidence-based guidance to early childhood educators on effective behavior support and instructional practices to promote social-emotional competence and reduce challenging behaviors of children with and without disabilities in preschool and kindergarten classrooms. The 5-year study […]
Education and learning projects
Developing a K–12 STEM Education Indicator System
For the National Science Foundation, SRI supported the development of 14 indicators measuring students’ access to quality learning, educators’ capacity, and policy and funding initiatives in K–12 STEM education. Policymakers agree that in today’s world, the quality of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in a country, state, or region has a major impact […]
Community College Partnership’s Instructional Impacts
Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL)
Connecting and exploring researchers’ perspectives in digital learning to make significant and lasting improvements to STEM education.
Evaluation of International Baccalaureate’s Bridging the Equity Gap Project
Co-principal investigators Clients and partners
Evaluation of CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computer Education
The CPATH program was intended to transform undergraduate computing education on a national scale to meet current and future national needs.
Evaluation of the Florida Master Teacher Initiative
iSTEM: Impacts of Inclusive STEM High Schools on Student Outcomes
SRI Education leads a first-of-its-kind longitudinal study on the schools’ effectiveness in Texas, North Carolina and Ohio.
Evaluation of the Pathway to Academic Success Project – I3 Validation Grant
Evaluation of Rocketship Students’ Middle School Outcomes
SRI examined middle school outcomes of Rocketship alumni and their peers who attended non-Rocketship elementary schools. Rocketship Education is a national nonprofit network of public elementary charter schools serving low-income communities with limited access to excellent schools. Founded in 2006, Rocketship Education is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap […]
College, Career, and Community Writers Program Evaluation
The National Writing Project’s (NWP) College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP) is designed to improve students’ argument writing through intensive teacher professional development, instructional resources, and formative assessment.
Project SECURE: Keeping Kids Safe within a Trauma-Informed Multi-Tiered System of Support
SRI Education assessed the impact of Project SECURE, a multitiered evidence-based framework designed to strengthen the resilience of students who are most vulnerable to disciplinary exclusion, gang involvement, and trauma. Funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, SRI Education conducted a 4-year randomized controlled trial of Project SECURE in partnership with a local school district […]
Evaluation of the Midwest Expansion of the Child-Parent Center Education Program
Funded by an Investing in Innovation (i3) validation grant from the U.S. Department of Education, SRI conducted an independent evaluation of the Midwest Expansion of the Child-Parent Center (CPC) Program using a quasi-experimental design.
Efficacy Study of Foundations, School-wide Positive Discipline for Middle Schools
SRI is evaluating the impact of the Foundations program, a schoolwide intervention for promoting positive discipline policies, on perceptions of school climate and students’ behavior and academic performance in middle schools.
Innovations in Early Mathematics Professional Development
Innovative professional development program produces impacts on preK to third grade teachers’ confidence, knowledge, and practice with sustained outcomes. In partnership with the Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative, SRI evaluated the impact of teachers’ participation in a 2-year professional development (PD) intervention to improve teachers’ knowledge, attitudes, and instructional practice in math across prekindergarten (preK) to […]
