Karla C. Lewis
Educational Research Methodology (ERM) Department
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: klewis@serve.org
Biography
Karla C. Lewis has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Policy from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was trained as a qualitative researcher (utilizing case studies, focus groups, and other ethnographic methods). She has been with SERVE Center for over eleven years and served as a Project Director with the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast (2006 – 2011). She supervised the Request Desk that responded to over 900 research requests over six years and the work of the SERVE Center State Liaisons (senior staff assigned to each southeast state) and worked collaboratively with them to understand and respond to state educational agency (SEA) needs. Currently, she is the Project Director for an Investing in Innovation (i3) validation evaluation.
Publications
Lewis, K.C. (2014). Case Study of the Northeast Regional School of Biotechnology and Agriscience. Greensboro, NC: The SERVE Center, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Lewis, K., McColskey, W., Anderson, K., Bowling, T., Dufford-Melendez, K., & Wynn, L. (2007). Evidence-Based Decisionmaking: Assessing Reading Across the Curriculum Interventions (Issues & Answers Report, REL-2007-No. 003). Washington, DC: US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast.
Lewis, K.C. (2005). Seen but not heard: ESEA and Instructional aides in elementary education. Review of Research in Education, 29, 131 – 149.
Lewis, K.C. (2004). Colleagues or cultural brokers: Instructional aides relationships with teachers and parents. The School Community Journal, 14 (1), 91 – 111.