REL Southwest has established alliances with the most capable organizations and universities to enhance our capabilities in the delivery of rigorous research. The Organizations and Universities profiled below are currently collaborating or have previously collaborated with our Lab.
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
American Institutes for Research (AIR)
AIR is one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. REL Southwest has partnered with AIR because of their vast experience in judging the quality of research evidence, their specialized capabilities in special education and high school reform and their ground breaking research in cost analysis. Founded in 1946 as a nonprofit organization AIR’s work spans a wide range of substantive areas: education, student assessment, international education, individual and organizational performance, health research and communication, human development, usability design and testing, employment equity, and statistical and research methods. The intellectual diversity of more than 1,500 employees enables AIR to bring together experts in many fields, including education, psychology, sociology, economics, psychometrics, statistics, public health, usability engineering, software design, graphics and video communications—all in the search for innovative answers to any challenge. www.air.org
AnalyticaBased, in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, ANALYTICA serves clients nationwide. ANALYTICA is a small minority owned company founded in 2004 by Dr. Herbert M. Turner, III, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Policy Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program who has over 25 years of quantitative research experience in the private, public, and education sectors. ANALYTICA has conducted numerous projects for clients in the government, non-profit and for-profit sectors. ANALYTICA uses a range of strategies to assist its clients and key stakeholders in maximizing human, financial, and technological resources in solving difficult research or organizational problems. Underlying these strategies is ANALYTICA's determination to understand and apply cutting-edge methodological approaches to social science and health-care research questions.
http://analytica-inc.com
Instructional Research Group
Edvance Research’s work with the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)to run the Regional Educational Laboratory – Southwest presented an opportunity to partner with the RG Research Group, while conducting a rigorous Randomized Control Trial. Instructional Research Group Inc. is a small, privately owned company that specializes in large-scale program evaluation and large-scale field research. The company also specializes in projects involving professional development, and curriculum development and analysis. RG Research Group Directors include Dr. Russell Gersten and Dr. Joseph A. Dimino, both nationally recognized researchers with extensive experience in the education industry. Russell Gersten serves as the Research Director for REL Southwest. http://www.inresg.org/
WestEdWestEd is a leading nonprofit research, development and service agency that offers a broad portfolio of nonpartisan, evidence-based solutions. As a nonprofit agency, WestEd work is guided by a mission of promoting excellence, achieving equity and improving learning for children, youth, and adults. Founded in 1966, WestEd is guided by research and experience, drawing on an ever-growing and constantly refined base of knowledge and development for more than four decades. The organization brings in exceptional talent from across the country to tackle the complex issues related to education and human development.
www.wested.org
UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS
REL Southwest has formed partnerships with several universities that have highly reputed research capabilities.
University of Oklahoma
Created by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1890, the University of Oklahoma (OU) is a doctoral degree-granting research university serving the educational, cultural, economic and health care needs of the state, region and nation. OU enrolls almost 30,000 students, has more than 2,000 full-time faculty members, and has 20 colleges.
REL Southwest is partnering with The Center for the Study of Small/Rural Schools, a cooperative effort between the University of Oklahoma's Colleges of Education and Continuing Education. The expertise provided in this alliance enhances the REL Southwest work on research related to rural education issues.
Endorsed by the National Rural Education Association (NREA) as one of its five recognized rural education research centers, the center assists small and rural schools in building and maintaining necessary knowledge bases, founded on state-of-the-art research in the areas of school improvement and reform, restructuring, staff development, administration, and teaching. The center utilizes a multifaceted approach in assisting small and rural schools through workshops, training programs, surveys, needs assessments, and provision of technical assistance and various other services. Its clients include school boards, teachers, administrators, businesses, community groups, rural organizations, state and federal agencies, as well as international agencies and governments. http://cssrs.ou.edu/
University of Texas at Austin
Founded in 1883, The University of Texas at Austin (UT) is one of the largest and most respected universities in the nation. The Times of London ranked UT second among U.S. public universities in its ranking of the world's top 200 universities. UT is the largest institution of The University of Texas System, and is a major research university home to more than 48,000 students, 2,700 faculty and 19,000 staff members. REL Southwest is aligned with UT to research the application of systematic planning, design, and development of instruction using technological tools to enhance learning. The Instructional Technology Program at UT is a graduate program and offers degrees at the master and doctoral levels. This comprehensive program prepares professionals for various positions in education and industry. This program allows students to acquire knowledge and skills in the areas of instructional systems design, learning and instructional theories, and development of Web-based and interactive multimedia learning environments using various state-of-art technology-based systems
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/CI/IT/index.php
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