Secondary and Transition Services: Special Education Research
IES is currently accepting applications for this research program. For your convenience, you may download either the full FY2008 Education Research RFA, or just the material that is specific to this research topic.
Download the Secondary and Transition Services specific 84.324 Education Research RFA
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Download the full 84.324 Special Education Research RFA
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Note: FY 2008 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 overarching purpose of the Research Grants Program on Secondary and Transition Services is to contribute to the improvement of secondary and transition programs and outcomes for secondary (middle school and high school) students with disabilities. These outcomes include the behavioral, social, communicative, functional, occupational, and academic skills that enable young adults with disabilities to obtain and hold meaningful employment, live independently, and obtain further education and training. Through the Secondary and Transition Services Research Grants Program, the Institute intends to support research to: (a) identify curricula, instructional approaches, transition services, programs, or systems that are potentially effective for improving the academic or functional skills of students with disabilities in secondary (middle school and high school) settings as well as mediators and moderators of the effects of these practices; (b) develop interventions that improve the academic and transition outcomes of students with disabilities in secondary settings; (c) establish the efficacy of existing interventions for improving the education and transition outcomes of students with disabilities in secondary settings; (d) provide evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for improving the education and transition outcomes of students with disabilities in secondary settings; and (e) develop and validate measures that assess skills predictive of successful education and transition outcomes for students with disabilities in secondary settings.
Interventions appropriate for research under this program are secondary-school-based interventions and home-based or community-based interventions that are integrated and intended to support adolescents' abilities to hold competitive employment, obtain further education and training, and successfully transition to independent living. Projects may study students with disabilities at post-secondary levels (e.g., students no longer eligible for services under IDEA due to graduation or age-out) only if the purpose is to improve services and interventions at the secondary level. Interventions may also include approaches, practices, and programs for pre-service or in-service training of teachers or other service providers to deliver secondary or transition instruction or services to students with disabilities. The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., intervention programs, strategies, approaches) that have been documented to be effective in improving the secondary education and transition outcomes for students with disabilities.
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