Dr. Ronald Beebe

Ronald Beebe, Ph.D. has been teaching classroom-based research, educational research design and methodology and statistics for the past eight years, previously at Cleveland State University (CSU) and currently at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Teacher Research, and has served as a reviewer of several texts on educational research and teacher action research. He worked extensively with the CSU Master of Urban Secondary Teaching (MUST) program/partnership, and has worked specifically with the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine over the past three years to develop a successful collaborative faculty research program with the Professional Development School model. This work has been recognized by the American Educational Research Association with the 2010 Claudia M. Balach Teacher Researcher Award. At UHD, he has worked extensively with students in the MAT program to develop classroom-based research projects addressing the use of journals in math and science, student self-efficacy, bi-lingual education, technology integration, gender differences, and service learning among others. He is currently the Internal Evaluator on a $288,392 U.S. Department of Education Grant (P116V090030) addressing alternative certification for minority STEM educators. He recently served as the Evaluation Researcher for a multimillion dollar, four year U.S. Department of Education grant (P336C020018) at CSU focused on urban teacher retention, which resulted in a paper on teacher educator cultural competence presented at the Second International Conference on Language, Education, and Diversity in November 2007. As part of a two year grant, Dr. Beebe served as the External Evaluator for the National Conference of Community and Justice (Western New York Region) ANYTOWN diversity leadership programs for middle and high school students. In addition, he provided evaluation research services for the Erie 1 Board of Cooperative Education Services’ Diversity program which focused on hiring and staffing policies. He also received a CSU faculty development grant to develop the online delivery of the CSU graduate-level Education Research course, an Ohio Learning Network Learning Community grant to revision the online core courses of CSU’s College of Education and Human Services Master’s programs, and a CSU library grant to improve information literacy.

He has presented at several national and international conferences on models of classroom-based research, including American Educational Research Association, National Association of Professional Development Schools and the Holmes partnership. He continues to research and develop individual and collaborative models of classroom-based research for pre-service and in-service educators.

Exhibited Publication

Beebe, Ronald. “Predicting Burnout, Conflict Management Style, and Turnover Among Clergy.” Journal of Career Assessment 15.2 (2007): 257-275.