Affiliated
centers
Center for
Applied Research and Educational Improvement
The Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement
(CAREI)
creates connections between the College and Minnesota's schools to reform educational
practice and improve overall effectiveness, disseminate research results, provide
incentives and technical assistance for collaborative school-based research, and address
educational issues of state and national importance.
(612-624-0300)
Center for Cognitive
Sciences
The Center for Cognitive Sciences is an interdisciplinary research center that serves
as the foundation for research in the cognitive sciences at the University of Minnesota,
its members represent 11university departments and six colleges.
(612-625-9367)
Center
for Early Education and Development
The Center for Early Education and Development
(CEED) links the
University's resources with those who serve children and families. CEED facilitates
communication among University colleagues around research and professional issues in early
education and development and provides increased training opportunities for practitioners.
(612-624-5780) Cooperative Learning
Center
The Cooperative Learning Center was created to develop and
refine theory of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic efforts
and conflict resolution. Staff are engaged in programmatic, long-term
research to validate the theories. Center staff use the validated
theory to develop practical procedures to be used in classrooms,
schools, and other settings. The practical procedures include
cooperative learning, school based decision making, academic
controversy, decision-making controversy, conflict resolution, and
peer mediation. (612-624-7031) Institute
on Community Integration
The Institute on Community Integration (ICI)
is committed to preventing and
reducing the limiting effects of disabilities. ICI applies its resources to improve the
quality and community orientation of professional services and social supports available
to individuals with disabilities and their families. The
Institute is a University Affiliated Program on
Developmental Disabilities, supported in part by the
Administration on Developmental Disabilities, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
(612-624-6300)
National Center on Educational
Outcomes
The National Center on Educational Outcomes
(NCEO) works with state and federal
agencies to identify important, measurable educational outcomes for children and youth
from birth to adulthood and conducts research on outcome assessment.
(612-626-1530)
Affiliated research groups
Biological Basis of Behavior
Group
Faculty from five colleges and nine departments investigate phenomena
ranging from the physiology of single neurons to the social behavior of
whole organisms.
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