Community-Based Research

The Office of Community-Based Research (CBR) provides assistance to local non-profit organizations that seek consultation on various aspects of grant writing, program evaluation, and assessment activities. CBR also provides services to on-campus faculty who have or are seeking external funding.

Mission

To practice the Marianist charism by increasing the internal capacity of local San Antonio non-profit organizations to conduct culturally responsive assessments and evaluations that lead to a more healthful and just social ecology.

Previous Partnerships

Conference Presentations

American Educational Research Association (2019): Community-based research: An ethical application of multicultural service-learning?

Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment Annual Conference (2019): Teaching CREMA: Essential Elements of Culturally-responsive Evaluator Education.

American Educational Research Association (2021): Ecologically plausible?: Comparing the independent and paired samples t-test with non-random missingness and skewed data.

Association for Psychological Science (2021): Effectiveness of one-way and repeated measures ANOVAs with simulated skewed data and correlated non-random missingness.

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Contact

The Office of Community-Based Research is located in the AT&T Center for Information Technology, St. Mary’s University in Room #105. 

We are always looking for eager students who want to learn and support the community outside of St. Mary’s University. Email us if you’re interested in joining or have further questions!