Teacher Quality: 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 Institute's Teacher Quality Research (Teacher Quality) program is to identify effective strategies for improving the performance of current classroom teachers in ways that increase reading, writing, language, mathematics, science, social, behavioral, and secondary transitional outcomes for students with disabilities from kindergarten through Grade 12. The Institute intends for the Teacher Quality research program to fulfill five goals: (1) identifying the characteristics or practices of teachers that are associated with better student outcomes; and identifying programs and practices for teacher professional development that are associated with better student outcomes, as well as mediators and moderators of the relations between student outcomes and these teacher characteristics, programs, or practices; (2) developing new programs and practices for teacher professional development that will eventually result in improving teacher practices and through them student outcomes; (3) evaluating the efficacy of fully-developed programs and practices for teacher professional development for improving teacher practices and through them student outcomes; (4) evaluating the effectiveness of teacher professional development programs that are implemented at scale and intended for improving teacher practices and through them student outcomes; and (5) developing and validating new assessments of teacher quality, or validating existing assessments for teachers at any grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 against measures of student outcomes.
Long term outcomes of the Teacher Quality program will be an array of tools and strategies (e.g., in-service programs, assessments) that have been demonstrated to be effective for improving and assessing teacher performance in ways that are linked to improvements in student outcomes. In this Request for Applications, the term professional development refers to the in-service training of current teachers.
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