@article{ref1,
title="The National Behavior Research Coordination Center",
journal="Journal of emotional and behavioral disorders (Austin)",
year="2009",
author="Wagner, M. M. and Sumi, W. C. and Woodbridge, M. W. and Javitz, H. S. and Thornton, S. P.",
volume="17",
number="4",
pages="244-249",
abstract="In implementing its Behavior Research Initiative, the U.S. Department of Education funded four Behavior Research Centers, each to test the efficacy of a separate intervention to improve the behavior of elementary school students with or at risk for serious behavior problems. The initiative also established the National Behavior Research Coordination Center to conduct a cross-site evaluation of the four behavior interventions. The authors describe how the Department of Education’s structuring of the initiative helped avoid many of the shortcomings of earlier federal cross-site demonstration programs and highlight the contributions a research coordination center can make to the quality of research conducted and to the knowledge produced across individual demonstrations.<p />",
language="",
issn="1063-4266",
doi="10.1177/1063426609343593",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1063426609343593"
}