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Kenneth Frank

 Professor
  Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education
 Ph.D. University of Chicago
 462 Erickson
 517-355-9567
Kenneth Frank is a professor of measurement and quantitative methods. His substantive interests include the study of schools as organizations, how teachers influence one another to affect classroom practices and school decision-making, social networks, and the social context of learning. His substantive areas are linked to several methodological interests: social network analysis, hierarchical linear modeling, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, log-linear and logit models, simultaneous equation models and time series models. His publications include new quantitative methods for representing relations among teachers and how those relations affect teachers’ orientations to teaching, the characteristics of schools that affect teachers’ orientations to teaching, and ways in which actors generate social capital from their social relations.

Areas of Expertise:

Active Grants:

  • National Science Foundation (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    Measuring Complex STEM Thinking using Epistemic Network Analysis
  • National Science Foundation
    How Novice Elementary Teachers' Social Networks Affect Ambitious Math Instruction in the Current Evaluation Climate
  • National Science Foundation
    Sustaining Responsive and Rigorous Teaching Based on Carbon TIME
  • National Science Foundation
    Supplement - How Novice Elementary Teachers' Social Networks Affect Ambitious Math Instruction in the Current Evaluation Climate