Cognition and Student Learning in Special Education: Special Education Research
IES is currently accepting applications for this research program. For your convenience, you may download the full FY2009 Education Research RFA.
Download the full 84.324 Special Education Research RFA
Download, view, & print as a PDF (475 KB)
Note: FY 2009 applicants that include subawards for work conducted at collaborating institutions should use this template to provide subaward budget information.
Download, view & print the form as an Excel file (164 KB).
Description of Research Program
The purpose of the Cognition and Student Learning in Special Education (Cognition) research program is to improve learning for students with disabilities by bringing recent advances in cognitive science to (1) identify underlying processes involved in reading, writing, mathematics skills, or science that are associated with student outcomes; (2) develop interventions—instructional approaches, practices, and curriculum—for improving student learning; (3) establish the efficacy of existing interventions and approaches for improving student learning with efficacy or replication trials; and (4) develop measurement tools that can be used to improve student learning and achievement.
The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., instructional approaches, computer tutors) that are based on principles of learning and information processing gained from cognitive science and that have been documented to be efficacious for improving learning for students with disabilities in preschool through Grade 12.
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