University of North Carolina, Charlotte

The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of the Communicating Interagency Relationships and Collaborative Linkages for Exceptional Students (CIRCLES) intervention for improving student, teacher, and community agency personnel outcomes. Research indicates that interagency collaboration models are needed to address gaps in the services provided to students with disabilities to ensure a successful transition from high school.The CIRCLES intervention aims to increase positive tran...

The purpose of this project was to develop materials for teaching mathematical problem solving to students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities. The goal was to combine methods used to teach problem solving to students with high-incidence disabilities and evidence-based practices for teaching mathematics to students with moderate/severe intellectual disabilities. Students with significant cognitive impairments often have difficulty participating in key aspects of the mathematic...

Although post-school outcomes for students with disabilities have improved in the past 10 years, students with disabilities still consistently experience poor outcomes in the areas of education, employment, and independent living when compared to their peers without disabilities. To improve transition outcomes, the researchers will examine the efficacy of a three-tier model of interagency collaboration, called the Communicating Interagency Relationships and Collaborative Linkages for Excepti...

To date, there has not been a comprehensive national analysis of students' mathematics achievement between kindergarten and twelfth grade. Some researchers have assessed growth over the entire period of schooling, but these studies are local and are not nationally representative. To address this need, the researchers will examine mathematics achievement trajectories for students in elementary, middle, and high schools, and identify possible mechanisms that appear to enable students, particul...

In this project, the researchers examined the effectiveness of Creative Curriculum (4th ed.) as an intervention with low-income children enrolled in Head Start. Additionally, the researchers planned to investigate the impact of Creative Curriculum on the developmental outcomes of children with special needs through complementary research.

Students with significant cognitive impairments often have difficulty participating in key aspects of the math and science learning processes. Many of these students have not had access to the general education curriculum. Recent education policy has encouraged instruction and assessment efforts to focus on grade level content for all students, including students with significant cognitive impairments. In order for these students to be evaluated on grade level content, new alternate assessm...