The key to conducting research that is actionable and useful is to ask the right questions. We start with that and build forward.
But it's not enough to do great research. You also have to be able to communicate information effectively and provide insight that makes the information relevant and alive.
Discussing Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) CIRP Freshman Survey results with WPI faculty, students, and parents at WPI Family Weekend.
John has experience with education research and evaluation at both the national and local level. For eight years he directed the largest and longest running study of higher education in the United States: the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). He also established the office of Student Affairs Planning, Evaluation and Research at Dartmouth College, using the CIRP and other national surveys as well as local surveys he created, to examine the student experience at Dartmouth. Before establishing Pryor Education Insights, John was a senior scientist in the higher education division of Gallup, where he was the lead researcher on the Gallup-Purdue Index.
Partnering with schools, colleges and universities, associations, foundations, and other organizations to make research come alive is his passion.