RESEARCH CENTERS

Center for English Learning and Achievement, University at Albany
The Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA) is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and language arts. CELA's research seeks to learn what elements of curriculum, instruction, and assessment are essential to developing high literacy and how schools can best help students achieve success. We provide information to teachers, schools, and communities so that they can choose the approaches that will work with students.

Child Research and Study Center, University at Albany

The Child Research and Study Center is one of the organized research Centers in the School of Education of the University at Albany. The Center was founded over 30 years ago under the joint auspices of the University and the Albany Medical College to provide diagnostic and consultation services to individuals and agencies in the community on behalf of learning disabled children and to conduct research in the study of learning disabilities and other developmental disorders. Currently, the Center is jointly affiliated with the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology and the Department of Reading, both in the School of Education. It has three major missions: (1) to conduct research in the study of various aspects of normal and abnormal development, especially as related to school learning; (2) to provide training and field experience in research for graduate students in the School of Education; and (3) and to provide diagnostic assessment and consultation services on behalf of impaired learners, in support of student training and research. In recent years, research conducted at the Center has been primarily concerned with early identification and early intervention on behalf of children at risk for early reading difficulties and with the development of techniques and formats for preventing long-term reading difficulties in such children. 

 

Center for Improving Early Reading Achievement
CIERA's mission is to improve the reading achievement of America's children by generating and disseminating theoretical, empirical, and practical solutions topersistent problems in the learning and teaching of beginning reading.