CSLA: Simeon Slovacek, Ph.D

Introduction
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Educational Background
Schedule

Charter College of Education

Simeon Slovacek, Ph.D
Full Professor

Office: KHD2080
Phone: (323) 343-4379 or (323) 343-5622
FAX: (323) 343-4345
Email: sslovac@calstatela.edu

INTRODUCTION

Professor Slovacek is a tenured Full Professor in the Division of Applied and Advances Studies in Education in the Charter College of Education. Duties include teaching, research, scholarship, advisement, research and evaluation project grants and contracts administration, and charter schools creation. His areas of expertise include charter schools, research and evaluation methodology, testing, statistics, and technology in Education. He helped to start the successful Masters program in Computer Education; obtained several technology grants, and has worked on dozens of evaluation grants/contracts. He has also authored or co-authored over forty funded grant proposals at the University, public agencies and school districts in the last 20 years (these have been funded for more than a cumulative total in excess of $30,000,000). Currently Professor Slovacek serves as Principal Investigator on a $1.7 million dollar NIH RO1 grant and evaluator on NEA grant (with LA Music Center), First 5 LA and City of Hope funded projects. Previously funded projects include the evaluation of the Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project, NASA/JPL STEP program, drug prevention education/safety programs, Head Start, Healthy Start, AmeriCorp programs, and the expansion of the Accelerated and Charter schools in Los Angeles.

Currently he serves as a founding charter school board member on three non-profit organizations. These include The Accelerated School board, The Inner City Education Foundation board (for View Park Preparatory Accelerated Charter Schools), and The School of Arts and Enterprise board. Beginning 1994 and in his capacity as a trustee, he played an instrumental role starting seven new and highly successful charter schools currently serving over 2,500 K-12 children. Their annual operating budgets exceed $20,000,000/year (as board member, he has a fiduciary responsibility for all of these schools.)

TEACHING INTERESTS

·Charter Schools · Assessment and Testing in Education · Research and Evaluation Methodology · Statistics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

· School Reform ·Educational Assessment ·Evaluation of Educational Programs & Arts Education ·Research and Evaluation Methodology

Representative Professional Activities

Date	Publications/Presentations
January 2006	Oh, D., Kim, J. and Slovacek, S. “Improvement in the quality of child care facilities through in-service training over two years.” Poster presentation at the Hawaii International Education Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii.
December 2005	Slovacek, S.P., Tucker, S. and Pantoja, L.. “The Music Center’s 2005 Institute for Educators Evaluation Report” Unpublished report for the Music Center and the Charles A. Dana Foundation.
November 2005	Balaguer, M., Cardoza, D., Desharnais, R., Galvan, J., Mirmirani, M., Partow-Navid, P., Ramey, L., Slovacek, S.P., Villa, V. & Yorker, B. “Supporting research, scholarly and creative work in a teaching centered university.” Invited panelist at California State University, Los Angeles Faculty Retreat. Pasadena, CA.
November 2005	Slovacek, S.P. & Schlackman, J. “Creating a responsive research sequence for doctoral level studies.” Guest presenter at the CSU/UCI Joint Ed.D. Educational Leadership Research Institute. Pomona, California.
October 2005	The School of Arts and Enterprise Opening Event, October, 2005. Invited Speaker. Pomona, CA
April 2005	Slovacek, S.P. & Meza Jr., J. “Universities as partners with charter schools in creating a learning organizations.” Paper presentation at the 19th International Conference of Learning Organization in a Learning World. Bangkok, Thailand.
January 2005	Sved, K., Alvarez, D., Meza Jr., J., Slovacek, S., Tsudi, J. and Washor, E. “The Role of Higher Education in the School Reform Movement and Charter Schools.” Panel presentation made at the 12th Annual California Charter Schools Conference (CCSA). Pasadena, CA.
January 2005	Rodriguez, R., Ponce, A., Slovacek, S. and Elliot, J. “Measuring and Improving Staff, Parent and Student Satisfaction.” Panel presentation made at the 12th Annual California Charter Schools Conference (CCSA). Pasadena, CA.
January 2005	Thorp, P., Brown, S., Mondry, G., Slovacek, S. and Woerner, A. “Effective Board Governance: Multiple Perspectives.” Panel Presentation made at the 12th Annual California Charter Schools Conference (CCSA). Pasadena, CA.
2005	Oh, D. & Slovacek, S. (2005). The effect of a writing center for students’ in the sciences. GYAN: The Journal of Education, Vol. 1, No. 2, 21-28.
2005	Oh, D.M., Kim, J.K., Pantoja, L., Slovacek, S. and Lee, S. (2005). “Improvement in the quality of child care facilities through in-service training” International Journal of Early Childhood Education, Vol. 11, 2005.
2005	Slovacek, S.P. & Meza Jr., J. (2005) “Universities as partners with charter schools in creating learning organizations.” Proceedings of International Conference of Learning Organization in a Learning World (ICLORD) 2005, 837-844. (Outstanding paper award)
June 2004	Slovacek, S.P. and Pantoja, L. “Career Opportunities in Research, Education & Training (COR) Evaluation Report” Unpublished report for the National Institute of Mental Health.
June 2004	Wood, A.L. and Slovacek, S.P. “Los Angeles BioMed BRIDGES Program 2004 Evaluation Report” Unpublished report for the National Institute of Health.
April 2004	Slovacek, S.P. & Oh, D.M. "Urban Minority Students in Science Education" Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference. San Diego, California.
March 2004	Slovacek, S.P., Pantoja, L. & Lee, W.C. "English Language Assessment and its Relative Importance in School Accountability in California" Presented at the Language Testing & Research Colloquium (LTRC) Conference. Temecula, California.
February 2004	Slovacek, S.P., Tucker, S. and Pantoja, L. "A Study of the Yoga Ed Program at The Accelerated School" Submitted to The Physical Educator.
December 2003	Oh, D. M. & Slovacek, S. "The effect of a writing center for students in the sciences" Submitted to Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.
December 2003	Slovacek, S. & Oh, D. M. Urban Minority Student Science Education. Submitted to Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering.
November 2003	Slovacek, S. & Tucker, S. "The Art of Arts Education Evaluation - Three Promising Methodologies" Presented at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) Conference. Reno, Nevada.
December 2002	Slovacek, S.P. Evaluating Teachers Beyond Observations Presentation made to the Supervisory Skills Network (Ministry of Education Lead Trainers of Supervisors. Cairo, Egypt.
December 2002	Slovacek, S.P. English Language Testing: Using Predictive and Concurrent Validity to Inform Teaching Practice” Presentation made to EgypTESOL Members in Egypt. Cairo, Egypt.
December 2002	Slovacek, S.P. Evaluating Schools Through the Use of Standardized Testing: Two Case Studies” Presentation at the Regional Returned Participant Workshop. Cairo, Egypt.
July 2002	Hafner, A.L., Oh, D.M., Slovacek, S.P. Evaluation of Assessment Outcomes in Pre-Service Teachers”. Presented at the International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education. Vienna, Austria.
March 2002	Slovacek, S.P., Kunnan, A.J., and Kim, H. California Charter Schools Serving Low-SES Students: An Analysis of the Academic Performance Index” Presented at the 2002 California Network of Educational Charters (CANEC) Conference and Published in Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC).

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D. Educational Research & Evaluation Methodology 1976
Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

M.S. Educational Research & Evaluation Methodology 1974
Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

B.A. Physics 1971
Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York

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