Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Entity will: • Have an established crowd sourcing platform with proven success recruiting partner organizations and implementing special education research projects in schools. • Have professional connections with universities and school districts in rural communities. • Have professional connections with universities and other partners who provide outof-school services to students. • Have expertise in developing customized training to facilitate crowd sourced recruitment efforts. • Have experience assessing treatment fidelity using crowd sourced technologies. • Have extensive experience collecting data, maintaining security of data, and transmitting data securely, while engaging in crowd sourced research. • Have personnel with extensive experience conducting research in special education as evidenced by a strong record of funded research, publications in nationally recognized journals, and presentations at professional organizations. • Have personnel who can participate in regular and ongoing communications with the Project Team, including in-person meetings at SMU. • Have a detailed plan for implementing Project SCALE-UP requirements across the five years of the grant. • Agree to adhere to SMU’s institutional review board (IRB) procedures for the treatment of human subjects.
