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MU University of Missouri
College of Education

ARC provides research and evaluation services to organizations, state agencies, academic departments, or individual faculty scholars in a variety of fields such as education, natural resources, law, medicine, and economics.

Survey Research

  • D.J. Case & Associates (national and regional surveys on natural resource topics, e.g., 32,000 dove hunters, 4,000 rural landowners, and 3,000 Michigan deer hunters.)
  • The Missouri Bar Association (biennial survey of attorneys on economic issues)
  • The Missouri Review (subscriber survey about a digital audio version of this literary magazine)
  • University of Missouri School of Medicine (”bubble” surveys designed for Asthma Ready Communities)
  • University of Missouri Family and Community Medicine (survey of doctors on end-of-life issues)
  • MU Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership and the United States Department of Agriculture (survey of leaders of farmer cooperatives)
  • Joplin Public Schools

Customer Satisfaction Research

  • Administration Office, University of California-Merced
  • Finance and Administration Office, University of Missouri System
  • Procurement Office, University of Missouri System
  • Risk and Insurance Management, University of Missouri System
  • Institutional Research and Academic Affairs, University of Missouri System (survey of 19,000 students on instructor communication)

Mixed-Method Research (Focus Groups, Interviews, and Surveys)

  • Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (survey of 14,000 stake- holders and interviews with 23 focus groups about the effects of No Child Left Behind legislation)
  • University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (quality of employee work life examined)
  • Moberly School District (evaluation of the Balanced Literacy Model)

Program Evaluations

  • Missouri State Libraries (evaluation of LSTA Programs)
  • Missouri Office of State Courts Administrator (assessment of the Interstate Placement of Children process)
  • Fulton School District #58 and New Franklin R-1 School District (two-year eMINTS program evaluation)
  • eMINTS National Center (statewide Evaluation of Missouri's 2007-2009 eMINTS/METS Program)
  • College of Education, University of Missouri (biennial evaluation of statewide Cooperative EdD Program in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis)