Jason J. Kim, Ph.D.

Dr. Kim has been involved in STEM educational programs research of kindergarten to grade 12 and post-secondary levels since 1993.  He is currently leading the multi-site assessment team for the National Genomics Research Initiative funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in addition to projects for individual institutions.

 

Dr. Kim worked with the National Science Foundation's Historically Black Colleges and University Undergraduate Program projects for the design, development and implementation of a progress indicator system for seven years.  He also completed a similar six year project for NSF's Tribal College and University Program,  and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium's American Indian Measures for Success (AIMS) project which was initiated in 2004.  AIMS was the first collective effort to develop and implement a key indicator system for all 36 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States.  Dr. Kim successfully ran the NSF Model Institutions for Excellence monitoring project from the beginning of the program in 1995 to the program's completion in 2007.
 
Dr. Kim  is currently leading the multi-site assessment team for the National Genomics Research Initiative funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in addition to projects for individual institutions.

As principal investigator Dr. Kim has completed three large-scale long-term kindergarten to grade 12 evaluative studies for NSF's Urban Systemic Initiative, Comprehensive Partnerships for Mathematics and Science Achievement, and Rural Systemic Initiative programs from 1998 to 2004. 

 

Dr. Kim has served as a member of a several National Advisory Panels including NASA's Office of Equal Opportunity's Minority University Research and Education Program, NSF's Expert Panel for Evaluation within a Cultural Context, NSF's Broadening Participation Initiative, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Evaluation Advisory for American Indian Higher Education Consortium, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Advisory for NSF's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program Evaluation, and AAAS Think Tank for NSF's Mathematics and Science Partnership program.

 

Dr. Kim has conducted numerous educational evaluation and research projects, published papers and books, and provided workshops and consultations in the areas of evaluation capacity development and educational key indicator management systems.  Dr. Kim founded Systemic Research, Inc. in 1995 to provide expertise in educational evaluation and information management systems.  Prior to 1995, he was a faculty member for ten years in the College of Engineering of Northeastern University, Boston.
 
Linda Crasco

Mrs. Linda Crasco is Executive Director of Systemic Research, Inc.  Mrs. Crasco is currently the Project Director for the National Genomics Research Initiative program funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in addition to projects for various colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, and foundations.  She served as the Co-PI/ Project Director for the AIMS project funded by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and the Development and Implementation of Indicator Monitoring Systems for three projects- NSF's Tribal Colleges Undergraduate Program and Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program, and the Evaluative Study of NSF's Model Institutions of Excellence program.  

 

Mrs. Crasco led three kindergarten to grade 12 evaluative studies as Project Director for NSF's Urban Systemic Initiative, Comprehensive Partnerships for Mathematics and Science Achievement, and Rural Systemic Initiative programs.

 

Mrs. Crasco has established professional relationships with individuals and teams in more than 100 institutions.  She has been the main contact person providing information and technical assistance via the telephone and email.  Mrs. Crasco has managed numerous data evaluation and capacity building workshops where she was a central presenter.  She has also conducted many on-site workshops.  Mrs. Crasco has organized almost 40 site visits, prepared the interview protocols, and participated in the visits as an interviewer and observer.  She has also led focus groups.  Mrs. Crasco is responsible for the management and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and report writing.

 

Mrs. Crasco has served on the American Indian Higher Education Consortium's  STEM Evaluation Framework Advisory Panel and the Panel of Expert Evaluators for The Urban Institute's Building Evaluation Capacity from the Inside Out: A Model for Funding Agencies project.