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
Meet Sheila Conway!
Sheila Conway, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Practice in the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
Meet Kimberley Davis!
Kimberley Davis, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Special Education and Interim Department Chair at Arkansas State University.
The Design of Systematic Replication Studies
This work introduces the Causal Replication Framework (CRF), which defines replication as a research design that tests whether two or more studies produce…
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