Welcome to NICHCY's Research Center! Looking for research-based information to
guide your work with children with disabilities? You've come to
the right place! We're pleased to connect you to the knowledge base
that the field has accumulated over years of investigation and practice.
Be sure to check back often as we continue to gather, review, and
organize this information!
Assessment and
Accommodations What accommodations are appropriate for which students?
How do accommodations affect student learning and their performance on
tests? This Evidence for Education addresses these and other
questions and explores the research base in this area. Commentary from
education professionals and examples from the field are included to highlight
practical tools and resources designed to help educators and families
determine appropriate accommodations for children with disabilities.
What
Works: Can We Say? This NICHCY Connections page takes a look at an
array of topics in education and the research we
have on each. We've focused primarily on published meta-analyses and syntheses
that add up the evidence to date on effective practice in each area.
Meet
the NICHCY Research Panel NICHCY is now deeply involved in collecting
and disseminating information about effective service delivery for
children with disabilities, whether that's early intervention or
special education. This is intended to improve programs and services
for the children, including infants and toddlers. There's a lot
of information out there on effective practice, and sifting through
it and identifying what will be useful to you is a huge task. To
help us, we have established a Research Panel of top-notch researchers
and experts in the field. Together they've been a tremendous asset
to the work we do and we'd like you to know more about them. More...
Stay Up To Date! We'll let you know when we've updated our
research pages or have added new studies to our database:
Search the NICHCY
Research-to-Practice Database See what
the best-available research has to say about which academic and behavioral
interventions work best for children with disabilities. We even provide
"Research Connections" to examples of practice based on the
research. Search...
Research News
Scientists Link Gene Abnormality to Autism:
A rare chromosome abnormality increases the risk of developing autism by about 100 times, a new study finds. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found that a tiny segment of chromosome 16 is missing or duplicated in about 1 percent of children with autism. Autism experts hope the finding could someday lead to the development of a genetic test that will help parents determine their risk of having a child with autism. - ABC News
Panel on Teacher Evaluation:
Education Sector hosted a panel discussion on the topic of teacher evaluation titled, “Missing Link in the Teacher Quality Debate.” The panelists discussed the limitations of the single salary structure and the desire for performance pay systems; the challenges in crafting new teacher evaluation systems that are fair, premised on teacher improvement and not punitive; the debates on using student tests scores to detrmine teacher quality; the response of the unions in negotiating new evaluation systems; and the investment required to bring new systems to scale.
-Education Sector
Congress Is Urged to Enhance 'No Child' Law
President Bush urged the Democratic-led Congress to revive a stalled effort to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law before he leaves office, but he pledged to veto any bill that "weakens the accountability" measures at the core of one of his signature domestic achievements.
- The Washington Post
Charters Struggle with Special Education:
This story out of New Orleans exemplifies the struggle many charter schools across the country have faced in adequately serving their students with disabilities. - The Times-Picayune
Resources from the Response to Intervention (RTI) Summit:
Check out these resources compiled by the new National Center on Response to Intervention for its RTI Summit. The RTI Summit provided training, information, and planning time for educational teams of key state education leaders and selected state affiliate organizations to learn about components and models of RTI and to scale up comprehensive models of RTI in their schools and districts. - National Center on Response to Intervention
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