Past Reports

The UERC creates reliable, usable knowledge in seven core areas. Below is a list and a search field for our past projects. Click here to return to the Focus Areas page.
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CAEL/AL360 Evaluation 2022-2023

This evaluation brings regional institutions together to set goals for serving adult learners.

Focus Areas: Adult Learners, Postsecondary Education

Year: 2019-2020

Educators of Color in Kansas City

This series of studies examines the preparation, recruitment and retention patterns of teachers of color in the Kansas City metro area.

Focus Areas: Teachers Work, Career Pathways, Postsecondary Education

Year: 2020-2025

Essential Skills Study

This study explores where young professionals learn the skills they deem “essential” for workplace success.

Focus Areas: Essential Skills/SEL, Career Pathways, Postsecondary Education

Year: 2020-2021

Evaluation of Donnelly College MSEIP

This evaluation investigates the impact of a comprehensive initiative designed to improve the recruitment, retention and graduation of undergraduate STEM majors.

Focus Areas: Teachers Work, Career Pathways, Postsecondary Education

Year: 2019-2021

Evaluation of Lead to Read KC

This evaluation investigated the impact that weekly reading time with a trusted adult can have on the achievement, attitudes toward reading and social skills of emerging readers.

Focus Areas: Career Pathways, STEM Education, Postsecondary Education

Year: 2019-2020

Evaluation of the MINDDRIVE Program

This evaluation examined the impact of a unique experiential learning program on students’ essential skill development and assessed key program strengths and areas of growth opportunity.

Focus Areas: Essential Skills/SEL, Career Pathways, STEM Education

Year: 2021-2024

Evaluation of Wayside Waifs No More Bullying!® Program

This evaluation examined the impact of a unique elementary school bullying and violence prevention program that integrates the animal and human perspective on students’ empathy, self-awareness, and self-management skills.

Focus Areas: Teachers Work, Essential Skills/SEL

Year: 2021-2024

KC STEM Alliance Evaluation

This fifteen-year evaluation examines the growth of the STEM Alliance and its impact on students, educators, and industry partners in the KC STEM ecosystem.

Focus Areas: Teachers Work, Career Pathways, STEM Education

Year: 2021-2024

LINC Evaluation Capacity-Building Initiative

The capacity-building initiative supported the development of a logic model, data inventory, and an evaluation plan.

Focus Areas: Essential Skills/SEL, Career Pathways, K-12 Education

Year: 2021-2024

PLTW + Agilities Study

This project examines where the Agile Work Profiler can help students develop their own agency and prepares them for future success.

Focus Areas: Essential Skills/SEL, Career Pathways, Postsecondary Education, K-12 Education

Year: 2020-2021

School Suspension Project

The purpose of the School Suspension Project is to describe patterns in school suspensions in Kansas City, Missouri, elementary and middle schools.

Focus Areas: K-12 Education

Year: 2018-2019

SchoolAppKC Project

The purpose of this project is to understand patterns in school access and school choice in Kansas City.

Focus Areas: K-12 Education

Year: 2019-2023