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Vitae

My Position

I am an associate professor in Measurement and Quantitative Methods within Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education within the College of Education and also in Fisheries and Wildlife within the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University.

I am affiliated with the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, the Educationa Policy Center and the Center for Statistical Training and Consulting (CSTAT).

Educational Background

1988 - 1993 University of Chicago Department of Education, program in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis, Ph.D.

My dissertation concerned the use of an iterative partitioning clustering algorithm to identify cliques of actors in a network. Applications include identifying cliques of teachers in high schools, cliques of students in a single grade of high school, and subgroups of schools which exchange many students.
Chair: Anthony Bryk
Committee: Charles Bidwell, Benjamin Wright, Kazuo Yamaguchi, Dan Lortie and Bob Dreeben

1986-1988 University of Michigan School of Education, program in Higher and Adult Continuing Education,. Masters of Arts.
1981-1985 University of Michigan. Major in Statistics and English, Bachelor of Arts.

Full Vitae

Frank, K.A. (2005). "Teacher Networks" Entry for Encylopedia of Schools, edited by Kathryn Borman.

Frank, K.A., Mueller, K., Krause, A. and Taylor, W. (2005). "The Intersection of Global Trade, Social Networks, and Fisheries." To be published in a book by Cambridge Press, edited by William Taylor and Michael Schechter.

*Field, S. *Frank, K.A., Schiller, K, Riegle-Crumb, C, and Muller, C. (in press) "Identifying Social Contexts in Affiliation Networks: Preserving the Duality of People and Events." Social Networks.
* coequal first authorship

Frank, K. A., Zhao, Y., and Borman (2004). "Social Capital and the Diffusion of Innovations within Organizations: Application to the Implementation of Computer Technology in Schools." Sociology of Education, 77: 148-171

Pan, W., and Frank, K.A. 2004. "An Approximation to the Distribution of the Product of Two Dependent Correlation Coefficients." Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 74, 419-443.

Crosnoe, R., Muller, C. and Frank, K.A. (2004). Interpersonal Context and the Potential Consequences of Adolescent Drinking. Social Problems.

Pan, W., and Frank, K.A., 2004. "A probability index of the robustness of a causal inference," Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 28, 315-337.

Frank, K. A. and Zhao, Y. 2004. "Subgroups as a Meso-Level Entity in the Social Organization of Schools." Chapter 10, pages 279-318. Book honoring Charles Bidwell's retirement, edited by Larry Hedges and Barbara Schneider. New York: Sage publications.

Zhao, Y and Frank, K.A., 2004. "What teachers need to know about technology: framing the question." To be published in a book for Project Time, Robert Floden editor.

Zhao, Y. and Frank, K. A., 2003. "An Ecological Analysis of Factors Affecting Technology Use in Schools." American Educational Research Journal, 40(4): 807-840.

Krause, A., Frank, K.A., Mason, D.M., Ulanowicz, R.E. and Taylor, W.M. (2003). "Compartments exposed in food-web structure." Nature 426:282-285

Wellman, B.A. and Frank, K.A. 2001. "Network Capital in a Multi-Level World: Getting Support from Personal Communities." pages 233-274 in Social Capital: Theory and Research, Nan Lin, Ron Burt and Karen Cook. (Eds.). Chicago: Aldine De Gruyter

Frank, K. 2000. "Impact of a Confounding Variable on the Inference of a Regression Coefficient." Sociological Methods and Research, 29(2), 147-194

Herman, S.E., Frank, K.A., Mowbray, C.T., Ribisl, K.M., Davidson, W.S., Bootsmiller, B., Jordan, L., Greenfield, A.L., Loveland, D., Luke, D. A. 2000. "Longitudinal Effects of Integrated Treatment on Alcohol Use for Persons with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders." Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research. 27 (3), 286-302.

Saunders, J.L., Leahy M.H., and Frank, K.A. 2000. "Improving the Employment Self-Concept of Persons with Disabilities: A Field Based Experiment." Accepted for publication in Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 43(3), 142-149.

Frank, K.A., and Fahrbach, K. 1999. "Organizational Culture as a Complex System: Balance and Information in Models of Influence and Selection." Special issue of Organization Science on Chaos and Complexity in Organization. Organization Science, 10(3): 253-277.

Frank, K.A. and Yasumoto, J. 1998. "Linking Action to Social Structure within a System: Social Capital Within and Between Subgroups." American Journal of Sociology 104 (3): 642-686. (see Jstor)

Frank, K. A. 1998. "The Social Context of Schooling: Quantitative Methods" Review of Research in Education 23, chapter 5: 171-216.

Bidwell, C. E., Frank, K.A., and Quiroz, P. 1997. "Teacher Types, Workplace Controls, and the Organization of Schools." Sociology of Education, 70 (4): 285-307. (see Jstor)

Frank, K. 1996. Mapping interactions within and between cohesive subgroups. Social Networks 18: 93-119.

Frank, K. A. and Yasumoto, J. 1996. " Embedding Subgroups in the Sociogram: Linking Theory and Image" Connections 19 (1): 43-57.

Quiroz, P.A., Gonzales, N. F., and Frank, K. A. 1996. Carving a Niche in the High School Social Structure: Formal and Informal Constraints on Participation in the Extra Curriculum. In Sociology of Education and Socialization, edited by A. Pallas, Volume 11. London: JAI Press.

Frank, K. A. 1995. "Exploring Interrelated Structures: A System Based on p1 and Influence Models." Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Networks, London England. Vol 1, Methodology, edited by M. Everett, and K. Rennolls, K. London: University of Greenwich Press.

Frank. K.A. 1995. Identifying Cohesive Subgroups. Social Networks (17): 27-56

Seltzer, M. H., Frank, K.A., & Bryk, A.S. 1994. "The Metric Matters: The Sensitivity of Conclusions Concerning Growth in Student Achievement to Choice of Metric." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 16 (1): 41-49. (see Jstor)

Frank, K.A. 1993. Identifying Cohesive Subgroups. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Chicago.

Bryk, A.S. & Frank, K.A. 1991. "The Specialization of Teachers' Work: An Initial Exploration." In Schools, Classrooms, and Pupils, edited by S.W. Raudenbush, S. W., and J.D. Willms. New York: Academic Press (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).

Lee, V. E.& Frank, K.A. 1990. "Students' Characteristics that Facilitate the Transfer from Two-year to Four-Year Colleges." Sociology of Education 63 (3): 178-193. (see Jstor)

Woolliscroft, J. O., Calhoun, J. G., Frank, K. A., & Ten Haken, J. D. 1989. "Medical Students' Perceptions of the Importance of the Medical Data Base to Patient care: Effects of Clinical Experience and Specialty Choice." Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 1(1): 21-25.

Ten Haken, J. D., Calhoun, J. G., Frank, K. A., Youmans, L. C., & Zelenock, G. B. 1988. "The Surgical Clerkship Experience: Self, Departmental and Institutional Assessment." American Journal of Surgery, 156: 155-158