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D-Index
55
Citations
15836
World Ranking
1992
National Ranking
955

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Kenneth A. Frank is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans several main fields of study, including Social Sciences and Mathematics, with a particular focus on Education, Modeling and Simulation, Computer Science Applications, Statistics and Probability, and Media Technology.

The primary topics covered in Kenneth A. Frank's research include Mathematics Education and Programs, Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, Innovations in Educational Methods, Statistics Education and Methodologies, Innovative Teaching Methods, Experimental Learning in Engineering, and Teaching and Learning Programming.

Frequent co-authors in their work are Alexei Kolesnikov, Patrick W Thompson, Timothy H. McNicholl, Kirsten Hogenson, and J. Roat.

Kenneth A. Frank's recent publications include the following:

  • School students' preparation for calculus in the United States, 2021, ZDM
  • Improving Student Success and Supporting Student Meaning-Making in Large-Lecture Precalculus Classes, 2020, PRIMUS
  • Developing TPACK for makerspaces to support mathematics teaching and learning, 2020, Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
  • Comparing Placement Policies at a Four-Year Institution, 2021, PRIMUS
  • The Structure of the Quadratic Formula, 2021, Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12

Kenneth A. Frank's work has been published in various venues, with multiple contributions to PRIMUS and representations in ZDM, Mathematics Education Across Cultures, Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12, and the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success.

Their contributions to the field were recognized in 2021 by the award of Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

Best Publications

  • Factors Affecting Technology Uses in Schools: An Ecological Perspective

    Yong Zhao;Kenneth A. Frank

  • Impact of a confounding variable on a regression coefficient

    Kenneth A. Frank

  • Compartments revealed in food-web structure

    Ann E. Krause;Kenneth A. Frank;Doran M. Mason;Robert E. Ulanowicz

  • Social Capital and the Diffusion of Innovations Within Organizations: The Case of Computer Technology in Schools

    Kenneth A. Frank;Yong Zhao;Kathryn Borman

  • Network Capital in a Multilevel World: Getting Support from Personal Communities

    Barry Wellman;Kenneth A. Frank

  • Analyzing Teachers' Professional Interactions in a School as Social Capital: A Social Network Approach

    William R. Penuel;Margaret Riel;Ann E. Krause;Kenneth A. Frank

  • Epistemic Network Analysis: A Prototype for 21st-Century Assessment of Learning

    David Williamson Shaffer;David Hatfield;Gina Navoa Svarovsky;Padraig Nash

  • What Would It Take to Change an Inference? Using Rubin’s Causal Model to Interpret the Robustness of Causal Inferences

    Kenneth A. Frank;Spiro J. Maroulis;Minh Q. Duong;Benjamin M. Kelcey

  • Students' Characteristics that Facilitate the Transfer from Two-Year to Four-Year Colleges.

    Valerie E. Lee;Kenneth A. Frank

  • Linking Action to Social Structure within a System: Social Capital within and between Subgroups

    Kenneth A. Frank;Jeffrey Y. Yasumoto

  • The Social Dynamics of Mathematics Coursetaking in High School.

    Kenneth A. Frank;Chandra Muller;Kathryn S. Schiller;Catherine Riegle-Crumb

  • Shaping Professional Development to Promote the Diffusion of Instructional Expertise Among Teachers

    Min Sun;William R. Penuel;Kenneth A. Frank;H. Alix Gallagher

  • Identifying cohesive subgroups

    Kenneth A. Frank

  • Instructional Advice and Information Providing and Receiving Behavior in Elementary Schools Exploring Tie Formation as a Building Block in Social Capital Development

    James P. Spillane;Chong Min Kim;Kenneth A. Frank

  • Organizational Culture As a Complex System: Balance and Information in Models of Influence and Selection

    Kenneth A. Frank;Kyle Fahrbach

  • The Alignment of the Informal and Formal Organizational Supports for Reform: Implications for Improving Teaching in Schools

    William R. Penuel;Margaret Riel;Aasha Joshi;Leslie Pearlman

  • Peer group contexts of girls' and boys' academic experiences.

    Robert Crosnoe;Catherine Riegle-Crumb;Sam Field;Kenneth Frank

  • Using Social Network Analysis to Study How Collegial Interactions Can Augment Teacher Learning from External Professional Development.

    William R. Penuel;Min Sun;Kenneth A. Frank;H. Alix Gallagher

  • Parents’ Union Dissolution and Adolescents’ School Performance: Comparing Methodological Approaches

    Michelle L. Frisco;Chandra L Muller;Kenneth Frank

  • The role of school-based colleagues in shaping the commitment of novice special and general education teachers

    Nathan D. Jones;Peter Youngs;Kenneth A. Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Chandra Muller
Chandra Muller The University of Texas at Austin
William R. Penuel
William R. Penuel University of Colorado Boulder
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University
Yong Zhao
Yong Zhao University of Kansas
Robert Crosnoe
Robert Crosnoe The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Dietz
Thomas Dietz Michigan State University
James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University
Valerie E. Lee
Valerie E. Lee University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Wei Pan
Wei Pan University of Hong Kong

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