Systemic Interventions and Policies for 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
Through the Systemic Interventions and Policies for Special Education (Systems/Policies) program, the Institute intends to contribute to the improvement of education for individuals with disabilities by (1) identifying systemic practices or policies that are associated with better outcomes for students with disabilities; (2) developing new policies or systemic practices that are intended to improve student outcomes either directly or indirectly by improving the intervention or education environment for students with or at risk for disabilities; (3) evaluating the efficacy of systemic practices or policies that are intended to improve student outcomes either directly or indirectly by improving the intervention or education environment for students with or at risk for disabilities; (4) evaluating the impact of systemic practices and polices that are implemented at scale and are intended to improve student outcomes either directly or indirectly by improving the teaching and learning environment; and (5) developing assessments that can be used to evaluate implementation of systemic practices or policies and validating these or existing assessments against student outcomes, as well as developing and/or validating accommodations for large-scale assessments (i.e., assessments used for accountability purposes) that would permit measurement of the proficiency and growth of students with disabilities.
The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of systems-level practices and policies that have been documented to be effective for improving the intervention or education environment and thereby improving outcomes for students with or at risk for disabilities from kindergarten through Grade 12.
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