Previous Work

Previous C-MEASURE projects are listed below. Questions regarding these projects or the role of C-MEASURE in these projects should be sent to our director at james.houston@mtsu.edu.

Analyzing and Understanding the Educational and Economic Impact of Regional Career Pathways 

Project description: This project aims to conduct an evaluation of Tennessee Pathways (along with earlier career pathway programs), a state initiative to align K-12 education, postsecondary education, and employers so that high school students have a clear pathway to move into the workforce.

Funding agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Funding status: Funded

C-MEASURE role: Instrument design, data analysis 

An Exploration of Interdisciplinary Teaming Practices and Student Outcomes in Wall-to-Wall Career Academies 

Project description: The purpose of the proposed research is to investigate wall-to-wall career academies and the associations between interdisciplinary teacher teaming practices and positive outcomes for students in career and technical education pathways.

Funding agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Funding status: Submitted  

C-MEASURE role: Study design, data analysis 

Collaborative Research: Assessing Mathematical Sensemaking in Science (AMaSS)

Project description: The objectives of this project are to create a suite of Automated Analysis of Constructed Response items to assess MaSS across undergraduate biology, chemistry, and physics that can be used to provide real-time feedback about student MaSS to instructors. 

Funding agency: National Science Foundation-Improving Undergraduate STEM Education

Funding status: Submitted

C-MEASURE role: Program evaluation  

In Her Footsteps: Transforming Culture and Civic Dialogue in a Historic Tennessee Community

Project description: The objective of this project is to create an interactive county-wide interpretive trail that will give participants a better understanding of how women shaped political, economic, and cultural conditions in a historic Tennessee community. 

Funding agency: National Endowment for the Humanities

Funding status: Submitted

C-MEASURE role: Program evaluation  

Deeper Learning Professional Development for High School Agriculture Teachers

Project description: The goal of this project is to develop a 2-year deeper learning institute that will bring high school agriculture teachers together in a focused community of practice to receive training in the selected deeper learning instructional and assessment practices.  

Funding agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Funding status: Submitted

C-MEASURE role: Study design, data analysis

SAFE: Soil, Animal, Food, and Economic Research, Education, and Outreach

Project description: The purpose of this project is to explore the economic viability of sustainable dairy and vegetable food production systems while delivering training to producers in support of an occupationally and environmentally safe operation.

Funding agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Funding status: Funded

C-MEASURE role: Instrument design, data analysis

Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network: Southern Region

Project description: This project investigates causes and mitigation strategies of farm and ranch stress through research and outreach efforts across the Southern Region of the United States.

Funding agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Funding status: Funded

C-MEASURE role: Instrument design, data analysis

A Geographic, Longitudinal, Demographic Analysis of STEM Teacher Quality Indicators

Project description: This project aims to perform an up-to-date, cross-sectional, and longitudinal analysis of national trends in STEM teacher persistence and effectiveness at the high school level before and during the timeframe of several prominent teacher recruitment initiatives.  

Funding agency: MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Program

Funding status: Funded

C-MEASURE role: Data analysis

Knowledge, Perceptions, Behaviors and Communication about COVID19 among undergraduate biology students in Tennessee  

C-MEASURE role: Data analysis

Science Plus, Plus (CS++) 

Project description: The purpose of this project is to increase recruitment and retention of students of color and females in computer science. 

Funding agency: National Science Foundation S-STEM Scholarship Program

Funding status: Funded

C-MEASURE role: Program evaluation

Teachers’ Knowledge, Training, and Use of Response to Intervention

Project description: The purpose of this project is to develop a survey examining the knowledge and use of DBDM among a nationally representative sample of teachers. 

Funding agency: MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Program

Funding status: Funded

C-MEASURE role: Data analysis