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Dr. Rosa Milagros Santos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at UIUC. Dr. Santos earned her Ph.D. degree in Special Education with an emphasis in Early Childhood Special Education from Utah State University in 1997. She has worked as a preschool teacher, early intervention provider, and special educator both in the Philippines and in the United States. Dr. Santos’s research focuses on young children with disabilities and their families within the context of early intervention and early childhood special education services (EI/ECSE). more information...

My scholarship is primarily focused on the intersection of social research and practical philosophy and is heavily influenced by the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. In my research I investigate questions concerning the nature of human action, practice, and understanding, as well as the nature and role of expertise and dialogue in developing understanding. more information...

The goal of my work is to support people with disabilities to be full participating members of our diverse society. The drive behind my work is a fundamental belief in equality, inclusion, and self-determination and in the social-ecological model of disability, which defines disability an interaction between personal characteristics and environmental demands, rather than as a deficit within a person. more information...

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Linda Sloat’s primary research interests focus on issues surrounding school improvement in K-12 education, including the administrator’s roles and responsibilities in the change process and leadership for learning at both the building and district level. more information...

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am an historian of education in the department of Educational Policy Studies. more information...

My past efforts have focused on program evaluation theory and practice, and qualitative research methods including case study.I am currently involved in performance assessment in New York City schools and the evaluation of training in the U.S. Veterans Administration.Since 1975 I have been director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE). Once a specialist in psychometrics and instructional research, my present orientation is naturalistic or ethnographic field study, particularly of the classroom. more information...

Cognition shows patterns of both loss and gain through adulthood. While "mental mechanics" (i.e., working memory capacity, computational speed, executive control of attention) may decline, crystallized abilities (i.e., verbal ability, knowledge, acculturation) show continued capacity for growth in many life-span contexts. more information...