Welcome to SERA!
The Special Education Research Accelerator (SERA) is a platform for conducting crowdsourced studies related to special education.
The long-term vision for SERA is to develop a validated infrastructure, procedures, and affiliated network of special education researchers to conduct high-quality, large-scale, and open replication studies with diverse samples to address critical questions in the field.
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
SERA2: Identifying Generalization Boundaries
SERA2 will expand SERA by developing and piloting procedures and supports for crowdsourcing the development of lines of inquiry to systematically investigate effect…
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SERA Pilot Study Internal Review: UNCW Research Team
One of the seven research teams we worked with throughout the SERA Pilot Study was the team at University of North Carolina Wilmington…
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Meet Sheila Conway!
Sheila Conway, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Practice in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.