In the Fall of 2005, the Neag School of Education hired Dr. George Sugai to develop a signature
organization that specialized in quality research and teaching in the areas of:
Positive Behavior Support
Behavior Disorders
Literacy
School Psychology
Special Education.
More specifically, the intent was to establish an efficient and supportive work
group that would enable highly capable new researchers to establish important and influential programs of research and
highly productive and experienced veteran researchers to continue "leading edge" research that influences practice,
policy, and educational science.
The purpose of CBER is to conduct and disseminate rigorous research that improves educational and social
outcomes for all children and youth in schools. Areas of interest include:
Design of Instruction
Learning strategies
Applied Behavior Analysis
Evidence-based Practices
Organizational and System change
Academic and Behavioral Assessment and Evaluation.
Goals
In the Fall of 2006, the Provost and Board of Trustees at UConn approved the establishment of CBER to
engage in
scholarly activities that focused on 6 goals:
Conduct, translate, and disseminate school-based academic and behavior research.
Prepare personnel for the application of evidence-based academic and behavior practices and systems in
schools.
Prepare leaders to conduct, translate, and disseminate academic and behaivor research, develop demonstrations
of effective instructional and behavioral programs, and prepare future personnel.
Establish and evaluate demonstrations and exemplars of effective, durable, efficient, and relevant systems of
evidence-based academic and behavor practices.
Collaborate with researchers, service providers, personnel preparers, families, community agencies, and others
involved in improving school functioning and outcomes at national, state, and local levels.
Establish and sustain a researcha nd education Center entitiy in the Neag School of Education.
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