Month: September 2019

CBER scientists receive funding from National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER)

 

CBER researchers have been awarded by the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) for the following research projects. Congratulations!

CBER co-director, Michael Coyne, will serve as principal investigator for a project entitled “Evaluating the Impact of Integrated Behavior and Reading Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Elementary Schools.The purpose of this project is to evaluate the impact of integrated behavior and reading practices in kindergarten through Grade 2 within a comprehensive, multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) framework. Drs. Brandi Simonsen (CBER co-director) and D. Betsy McCoach at Neag will serve as co-principal investigators. Drs. Jennifer Freeman and Devin Kearns will serve as co-investigators. The NCSER award will provide $3,999,589 to the team over five years.

CBER researcher, Allison Lombardi, will serve as principal investigator for a project entitled “College and Career Readiness for Transition (CCR4T): Development and Validation of a Student Measure.” The purpose of this study is to develop and validate the College and Career Readiness for Transition( CCR4T), a measure of high school students’ with disabilities perceptions of their own college and career readiness. Drs. Hariharan Swaminathan, Jane Rogers, and Jennifer Freeman (CBER researcher) will serve as co-principal investigators. The NCSER award will provide $1,398,298 to the team over four years.

Please click here to see more information about these projects and other IES-funded projects that are conducted by CBER researchers, including Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Research Network (MTSS-RN) Leadership Team and “Enhancing Ci3T: Building Professional Capacity for High Fidelity Implementation to Support Students’ Educational Outcomes (Project ENHANCE)”.