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
Crowdsource Science: Science Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities
Crowdsource Science project, a nationally representative observation study funded by the National Science Foundation’s EDU Core Research (ECR) program, aims to illuminate what…
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Study Recap: The SERA Pilot Study (2021-2022)
To pilot our crowdsourcing platform and process, we designed an experiment to test the effects of prompting elementary students with high-incidence disabilities to…
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Harnessing Collective Expertise: Crowdsourcing in Special Education Research
Presented at the 2024 Pacific Coast Research Conference in San Diego, CA.
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