Dayna DeFeo and colleagues from the College Preparatory and Developmental Studies Department in UAA’s Community & Technical College studied how students spend independent study time in the drop-in tutoring lab.
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Dayna DeFeo will serve as the evaluator on a project to support college and career readiness activities for rural high school students.
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Dayna DeFeo is excited to take on the role of CAEPR Director while former Director, Diane Hirshberg, pursues an Arctic social science policy research agenda.
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Before coming to Alaska, Dayna DeFeo studied how language shapes identity, and her work in New Mexico suggests alternate pathways to becoming a "heritage speaker."
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Teacher turnover is expensive for the state, and bad for student learning - and CAEPR's new report highlights the costs.
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A new book on Alaska politics and public policy, edited by Clive Thomas and published by the University of Alaska Press, includes chapters by five current and former ISER faculty members. The book, Alaska Politics and Public Policy: The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power, has chapters written by former ISER directors Fran Ulmer, Gunnar Knapp, and Scott Goldsmith, as well as Diane Hirshberg, director of the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research at ISER, and Alexandra Hill, ISER's associate director for finance and administration. Learn more.
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Joanna Karet is a new member of the research faculty at the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research, which was established as part of ISER in 2010. She will talk about her findings on whether attending two-year community colleges encourages or discourages students from going on to get four-year or advanced degrees. Existing qualitative research has indicated that attending community colleges causes many students to lower their goals. Dr.
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The Center for Alaska Education Policy Research (CAEPR), a center located within UAA’s Institute of Social & Economic Research, is setting up an email list to share news and information about the center, new publications and upcoming events. If you would like to be on this list, please send an email to caepr@uaa.alaska.edu with your name and email address.
For more information on CAEPR, please visit our website at: https://iseralaska.org/caepr/