Welcome to SERA!

The Special Education Research Accelerator (SERA) is a platform for conducting crowdsourced studies related to special education.

SERA has developed a validated infrastructure, established procedures, and built an affiliated network of special education researchers who conduct high-quality, large-scale, and open studies with diverse samples. This network actively addresses critical questions in the field, driving forward evidence-based practices and research.

Replication Studies

The SERA infrastructure is built around prospectively designed dataflow and workflows to allow for reproducibility. Our online data portal provides comprehensive access to resources for our research partners.

Research Partnerships

SERA is a platform for conducting crowdsourced studies related to special education, in which data are collected across multiple research sites by multiple research partners.

Project Highlights