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1. CENTER FOR ADVANCED
STUDY IN EDUCATION
A Research and DevelopmentCenter atThe Graduate
Center, City University of NewYork

2. CASE History
■ CASE has been a leading educational research center atThe Graduate Center for over 40 years.
It is one of the longest operating centers at the GC.
■ Since its inception, CASE has generated more than 75 million dollars in external funding from a
wide range of private, foundation, and governmental sources. CASE ranks among the leaders, if
not the leading, single all time grant securing entity at the GC and a leading employer of
students using external funding.
■ CASE grant activities have provided highly visible direct services to the community in the form
of staff/educator training, curriculum development and evaluation research.
■ CASE has provided pre, during, and post grant management services to PIs.This support has
been valued by GC PIs and spurs interest in submitting grant applications at the GC through
CASE.

3. CASE Mission
Promote educational equity and educational reform through
research, policy, and practice.

4. CASE Areas of Focus
STEM
Education
Collective
Impact
English
Language
Learners
Entrepreneurial
Education
Early
Childhood
Education
K-12 Education Higher
Education
Curriculum
Development
Professional
Development
Education
Policy Common Core
Service
Learning

5. Affiliations with Departments and
Centers within the GC
CASEUrban
Education
Ed
Psychology
Linguistics
CUNY
Institute of
Software
Design and
Developm’t
Computer
Science
RISLUS
Chemistry
Sociology

6. Collaborations Within and Outside CUNY
CASE
Baruch
John
Jay
BMCC
ASRC
Cit
y
Hofstra
City
Tech
RutgersKCC
NY
U
Lehman
Brooklyn
Buffalo
QCC
Essex
Comm.
College
Lafayette
Hunter
SUNY
Albany

7. Recent Sample of CASE Projects
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
$11,930,659
IGCSE Standard Settting Analyses/ NCEE
$71,800
SIFE Curriculum Development Project/ NYSED
$3,014,588
$76,873
$3,539,984
$131,954
ATEP Project Evaluation/ NSF
$149,980
Building an inter-disciplinary research community.../ NSF
Evaluation of a reality based video series of STEM virtual enterprise/ NSF
Optimizing Ed. Video Designs/ NIH
Wise Guys and Gals/ NSF
$180,000.00
$299,000
$435,281
Race to the Top Evaluation/ NYSED
$999,665
$276,993
Simulation & Modeling in Technology Education (F 2008)/ NSF
i-Port Post Doc Research Fellowships (F 2008)/ USDOE
$650,020
Bridges to Academic Success/ NYCDOE
The Role of Academic Momentum in Retention and Degree Completion/ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
$2,104,521
Evaluation of MSP in NYC/ NSF

8. CASE Provides Student Support
$166,000Financial
Support 17
Number of
Students
Employed
4656Number of
Hours
In fiscal year 2015/16, the CASE Race to theTop project alone provided
financial support as well as significant research experience to over 15 students.

9. Hub of Education Studies
CASE
NYSED
NYCDOE
CUNY
Local
Charter
Schools
NYC
Schools
NYS
Districts
SUNY
NJDOE

10. Sample CASE Publications
CASE grant activities frequently end with the generation of scholarly articles, conference
presentations and products that receive national attention.
Some recent examples:
Chiu, J. L., Malcolm, P.T., Hecht, D., DeJaegher, C. J., Pan, E.A., Bradley, M., & Burghardt, M. D. (2013).WISEngineering:
Supporting precollege engineering design and mathematical understanding. Computers & Education, 67.
Dixon-Román, E. J., Everson, H, & McArdle, J. J. (2013). Race, Poverty and SAT Scores: Modeling the Influences of Family Income
on Black andWhite High School Students’ SAT Performance. Teachers College Record (115).
Hecht, D., & Grode, D. (2012).The case for prosocial education: Service learning as community building. In P. Brown, M.W.
Corrigan, & A. Higgins-D'Alessandro (Eds.), Handbook of prosocial education (Vol. 1). Plymouth, UK: Rowman &
Littlefield.
Hudesman, J., Crosby, S., Flugman, B., Issac, S., Everson, H., & Clay, D. B. (2013). Using Formative Assessment and Metacognition
to Improve StudentAchievement. Journal of Developmental Education, 37.
Plass, J. L., Homer, B. D. & Kinzer, C. K. (2015). Foundations of Game-Based Learning. Educational Psychologist, 50(4).

11. Sample of Funders

12. CASE Staff
UndergraduatesRetired faculty
Practitioners Researchers
GraduatesNew faculty
Post-graduates Evaluators
Senior facultyAdministrators

13. Contact Us
Deborah Hecht, PhD
Interim Director
dhecht@gc.cuny.edu
212.817.1834