Kansas Education Data Users Consortium launches new website

The Kansas Education Data Users Consortium (KEDUC) has been busy this summer! Our website recently launched: www.keduc.info. Featured on the home page are education research priorities for the state as determined by a group of stakeholders from many levels and organizations. The site provides researchers many links to relevant data, and also allows them to submit requests for restricted-use data completely online. A forum has been created for researchers to interact, and gives the opportunity for those wanting to do research and educators with research needs to come together. When a researcher does their work through KEDUC, their data requests go to the top of the priority lists at both at the State Department of Education and the Board of Regents. Additionally, researchers have the $60/hour data set creation fee waived. Summaries of completed work will be posted on our website, and we will fund travel for up to six researchers a year to present at the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference.

 We have been actively recruiting new member organizations, adding two just over the summer. Researchers from institutions across the state are being surveyed to determine what fields of education they wish to survey, and we are sharing with them the benefits of working with us to find the data they need. Two surveys are already underway, and one has already been completed.