RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING Productivity and Quality Study UNIVERSIDADE DE PERNAMBUCO, RECIFE BRAZIL 2014-2017

STUDY OF 3-YEAR Bachelor's Degree 2010-2014

STUDY OF CAPITALIZED UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED STATES a look at the ten top private for profit, publicly-listed universities. 2009-2012

STUDIES OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
See - Oohm the Blog

STUDIES ON RETENTION AND PERSISTANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION A series of case studies to help understand how universities practices help retain or push-out students with a focus on nursing education. 2002-2010

SABOR II A ten-year project to build and maintain a large database of Hispanics for research purposes funded by the National Institutes of Health
2006

Evaluation of Pfizer Corporation's Educational Program "Alliance for a Healthy Border" 2005-2007

"Project Lead" Experimental Design for the Field-based preparation of Principals for 10 districts in South Texas 2005-2008

"Case Study of Trade Adjustment Act training practices in Hidalgo County, Texas" 2004-2006
Draft report of preliminary findings (.pdf)

"Significant Features of Asynchronous Learning Study" 2001-2006
Significant Features Report (.pdf)

"Designing, evaluating and improving university-level distance-learning programs, researching student's attitudes and outcomes and designing a doctoral-level virtual course on research methods."

"Designing dynamic systems models of dissertation research to facilitate the study of education and business practices at the doctoral level." 1998-2006

"Experimenting with quality systems in education while helping improve the quality of a school district."
We selected the lowest ranked school district in this area (The Rio Grande Valley of Texas) to experiment with quality systems. Here's the case of the Roma Independent School District now boasting three schools ranked by the Texas Education Agency as "exemplary schools" with achievement rates which have doubled every year.

"Testing operational definitions of the continuous improvement processes in education at K-12 and Higher Education systems."
The concern here is how best to blend market forces (the drivers of quality improvement in the private sector) with traditional educational quality improvement practices of learning enterprises into a working routine (a system of work) that facilitates the learning enterprise's quality improvement.
Continuous Improvement Journal Volume 1, Number 1 (.pdf)

"Studying transformation processes at K-12 schools and universities in the US, Canada and Mexico."
Learning enterprises are much less responsive to market forces than to public policy and the pressure to transform often guides the nature of the transformation process itself. How do other countries deal with these issues? Here we are in contact with a Canadian lab at Ontario Institute for Educational Studies and with a Mexican lab at Instituto de Investigación Educativa in Ciudad Victoria. We are also conducting our own studies here in the United States.

"Studying Open Enrollment Charter Schools in Texas."
Charter schools are learning enterprises which differ from public schools in that their enrollment is not assured. They must seek students and persuade their parents to join the school before they have an enrollment. This creates a radically different parent/school relationship and the beginning of a "quasi-market" for public education and school choice for their clients.