Crowdsource Science project, a nationally representative observation study funded by the National Science Foundation’s EDU Core Research (ECR) program, aims to illuminate what science instruction looks like for students with learning disabilities, addressing the documented achievement gap and providing insights to better support these learners.

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To pilot our crowdsourcing platform and process, we designed an experiment to test the effects of prompting elementary students with high-incidence disabilities to generate explanations on remembering animal facts. In a previous study, Scruggs and colleagues (1994) found that students who generated their own explanations had significantly greater immediate and delayed recall (after one week) of animal facts compared to a control group that merely repeated the facts. This study involved 36 fourth- and fifth-grade students with high-incidence disabilities in the Ohio River Valley. We replicated this study to determine if we would observe the same effects with a different group of students from across the country.

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SERA2 will expand SERA by developing and piloting procedures and supports for crowdsourcing the development of lines of inquiry to systematically investigate effect heterogeneity for the purpose of estimating generalizability boundaries.

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