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Center for Research on Learning

Creating Solutions to Educational Challenges

The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (KUCRL) is a multidisciplinary research team whose overarching goal is to create solutions to educational challenges. KUCRL is dedicated to development and research of educational programs and practices that improve outcomes for all learners, including those with learning differences or disabilities. These interventions and practices address higher-order reasoning skills, adolescent literacy, adult literacy, language and reading comprehension strategies, written expression strategies, math skills and strategies, social emotional learning skills, and explicit instruction and routines that respond to diversity in today’s schools. 

CRL Today

Fusion Reading Prediction Strategy

Improve Literacy with Fusion Reading

Fusion Reading is a comprehensive, research-based reading intervention program developed by Dr. Irma Brasseur-Hock, Dr. Michael Hock, and Dr. Donald Deshler. Fusion Reading supports research-based strategies for students in grades 6-12 to help them achieve statistically significant gains in reading scores as well as other academic classes.
Possible Selves 2nd Edition

Updated Possible Selves Course

Register for the updated Possible Selves (2nd Edition) Course made in Canvas by Dr. Jocelyn Washburn, KUCRL SIM Director.
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Latest Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for Children

Three technology tools developed by researchers at KU CRL are featured in the latest edition of Focus on Exceptional Children, Vol. 48(2), co-authored by Dr. Jocelyn Washburn. Read about VIOSS, a virtual reality experience that supports learning social skills, WRITE, an auto-scored writing progress monitoring tool, and CORGI (developed with researchers at CAST), digital graphic organizers to support students with thinking and reasoning skills.
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Virtual Reality Opportunities to Implement Social Skills

Visit the Virtual Reality Opportunities to Implement Social Skills (VOISS) blog to learn about how virtual reality is helping students improve social competencies and use extended reality experiences to support students to transfer the skills they learn from technology into the real world.

KUCRL Statistics

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Products & Technology Supports
3,800
Experts in Network
850,000
Teachers supported worldwide

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Technical Assistance

The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning provides technical assistance to State and Local Education Agencies seeking to address the language and literacy challenges faced by disadvantage children and youth. The CRL offers a wide array of programs, interventions, professional development, and instructional coaching that can impact literacy outcomes for students with disabilities, English learners, and students from low income households.

Contact crl@ku.edu for more information.