Author: klgrant2

The Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC) is building deeper connections with campus partners by providing evaluation expertise in support of research and program improvement. At the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), WEC partners with school districts, universities, state agencies, and community organizations to plan, implement, and support evaluation-related program improvement. WEC also offers capacity-building on issues such …

UW–Madison entomology professor Claudio Gratton had wanted to make an educational video game about insects for years. He believed a game would be an incredible way to engage young learners with the important research he does on insect diversity, but he needed a like-minded partner with the know-how to help develop and find funding for …

At the Center for Research on Complex Thinking (CRCT) in UW–Madison’s School of Education, undergraduates routinely perform at a graduate-student level and help train faculty and researchers from around the world, said Brendan Eagan, CRCT’s associate director of research, in a recent presentation.  That outcome is no accident. Eagan described it as the product of a deliberate, …

An updated statistical portrait of HMoob (Hmong)* American undergraduates enrolled in the 13 campuses of the Universities of Wisconsin reveals a college experience marked by unique challenges and opportunities. These enrollees, compared to their peers, are less wealthy and less likely to report having a disability. They are also twice as likely to be the …

A new collaborative project is bringing together the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) at UW–Madison and the national nonprofit Professional Development Hub (pd|hub) to improve how career‑related mentoring happens in biomedical research environments. The project is funded by a five-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part …

A recent working paper co-authored by UW–Madison School of Education assistant professor Taylor Odle and Ph.D. student Isabel McMullen offers some of the strongest evidence to date on when and why college advising programs for high school students are successful at scale. Their study, When and Why Does College Advising ‘Work’: Evidence from Advise TN, examines …

A new study co-authored by UW–Madison School of Education faculty member Courtney Bell explores whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help assess teaching quality using real classroom data and do it as well or even better than traditional human ratings, which can be time-consuming, expensive and inconsistent. The international team of researchers used a type of …

UW–Madison researchers Malachy Bishop and Sang Qin will use a $200,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to lead a two-year project addressing the lack of information about the effects of menopause on women living with multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic and progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system. By the project’s end, …

The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and the Multicultural Student Achievement Network (MSAN) today announced registration is open for the 2026 MSAN Institute. The two-day professional learning conference will take place in Madison on April 16 and 17, with a focus this year on research and programs that center youth voices. The conference is open to …

A good one-pager is not only a tool for external communication but can also serve as a powerful internal strategic instrument, said Alexa Shore in a key point of her Feb. 5 presentation to WCER staff and projects, titled The Art of the One-Pager. Shore, the business development coordinator for WCER’s SimLab, reframed the one-pager as …