National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators

NCITE's purpose is to advance the quality and effectiveness of technology, media, and materials for individuals with disabilities. NCITE creates a marketplace demand for the selection and appropriate use of research-based technology, media, and materials (TMM).

NCITE is affiliated with the College of Education at the University of Oregon.

Sections

Goals

Recent Accomplishments

• Developed the draft of the Reading and Language Arts Framework, K-12 for the State of California.
• Developed the Review of High Quality Mathematics Research for the State of California.
• Developed the Evaluation of Research on Educational Approaches which the AFT, NEA, AASA, NAESP, and NASSP used to evaluate schoolwide programs in their report, An Educator's Guide to Schoolwide Reform.
• Developed the Standards and Objectives for Compact for Literacy (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning and Evaluation Services).
• Published three books:
  • Effective Teaching Strategies That Accommodate Diverse Learners (1998)
  • What Reading Research Tells Us About Children with Diverse Learning Needs (1998)
  • The Architecture of Instruction: Towards Successful Inclusion of Students with Disabilities (in press)
• Continued work with major publishers and developers of TMM (e.g., McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Association of American Publishers).
• Continued work with key states - Texas, California, Florida, New York, Illinois, Virginia, and Hawaii.
• Advised Hegler and Ball Foundations on how to improve the quality and quantity of research in education.

Mailing Address:
NCITE
805 Lincoln Street
Eugene, OR 97401