Eugene Kennedy holds a PhD in Educational Research Methodology from the University
of South Carolina. He has worked as a researcher for a testing company, a state department
of education, and has served as a technical consultant and evaluator on numerous district,
state, and national projects.
Jones, L. & Kennedy, E. (2008). Passing the leadership test. Lanham, MD: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing
Group.
Kennedy, E. (2006). Psychometrics. In Fenwick English (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership
and Administration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Lasky, S., Stringfield, S., Teddlie, C., Kennedy, E., Schaffer, E., Chrispeels, J., Daly, A.J., & McDonald, D. (2005). Designing and conducting
a gold standard effective schools study. Journal of Effective Schools, 4(1), 27-45.
Kennedy, E. (1995). Contextual effects on academic norms among elementary school students. Educational
Research Quarterly, 18(4), 5-13.
Kennedy, Eugene (1988). Estimation of the squared cross-validity coefficient in the context of best
subset regression. Applied Psychological Measurement, 12, 231-237.
Kennedy, E., Sitharama, S. I., and Pang, S. (2009, May). Multi-University Research and Training
in information Assurance and Computer Security. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual
Conference on Understanding Interventions That Broaden Participation in Research Careers,
Bethesda, MD.
Symansky, J. and Kennedy, E. (2008, March). The Louisiana school accountability system: An examination of the
achievement gap from 2001 to 2006. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
Yu, F., Kennedy, E., Teddlie, C. and Crain, M. (2007, April). Identifying effective and ineffective
schools for accountability purposes. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Kennedy, Eugene & Mandeville, Garrett (1990, April). A Longitudinal Study of the Social Distribution
of Achievement For a Cohort of Public Primary School Students. Presented at the annual
meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, Mass.
Kennedy, Eugene & Mandeville, Garrett (1987, April). A Study of the Link Between Social Class and
Academic Achievement in South Carolina Over a 5 Year Period. Presented at the annual
meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC.
McAnelly, N.W., [PI], Nixon, B.C. [PI], Kennedy, E. [Co-PI], Neubrander, F. [Co-PI],
Madden, J.J. [Co-PI] (8-10-2010 to 8-10-2011). Evaluation proposal for the EBRPS American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act Program. East Baton Parish School System, $346,000.
Kennedy, E. [PI] (2008-2009) Longitudinal Study with University of Louisiana Lafayette.
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, $118,802.
