Research Clinics
Teaching Clinics and Laboratories
Few schools of education can boast of on-campus facilities like those found at Syracuse. The following supervised settings offer students on-campus training and research opportunities with children, adolescents, and adults.
Psychoeducational Teaching Laboratory
Human Performance Laboratory
Fitness/Wellness Research Laboratory
Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory
Exercise Biochemistry Lab
Center for Digital Literacy (CDL)
The Reading Clinic
Psychoeducational Teaching Laboratory
This evaluation clinic provides graduate students with advanced clinical training in evaluation and planning for preschool, elementary, and secondary-aged students with puzzling learning and/or behavior difficulties. A multidimensional psychoeducational evaluation process is followed in order to recommend appropriate school and home programming. Multidisciplinary team approaches are implemented in this required practicum site for all graduate students in learning disabilities, special education, school psychology, and early childhood special education.
Human Performance Laboratory
The Human Performance Laboratory, located in the Women's Building, provides an environment and equipment for teaching, research, and service in exercise physiology including:
- Body composition analysis by underwater weighing, anthropometry, and bioelectrical methods;
- Equipment to measure oxygen consumption and cardiac function during treadmill, cycle, stair climbing, and arm crank exercise;
- Blood chemistry profiles such as cholesterol, glucose, and lactate analysis;
- Lung function testing;
- Muscular strength testing
- Flexibility assessment.
Fitness/Wellness Research Laboratory
The Fitness/Wellness Research Laboratory, located in Archbold Gymnasium, supports an environment for teaching, research, and service in exercise training and health promotion that includes:
- Aerobic exercise equipment such as treadmills, cycle ergometers, rowing, cross country skiing, and climbing machines; and
- Weight lifting equipment including resistance exercise machines, free weights, and lifting benches.
Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory
The Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory, located in the Women's Building, allows faculty and students to study the physiology of muscular strength and endurance function relative to exercise performance, training, and rehabilitation. This laboratory includes:
- Modern equipment to assess functional capapcity (muscular strength and range-of-motion) of the lower back and knee; and
- Electromyographic (EMG) equipment to assess neuromuscular function.
Exercise Biochemistry Lab
The Exercise Biochemistry Laboratory, located in Bowne Hall, is operated in collaboration with the Nutrition Department. Much of this facilities initial activity has been associated with the graduate Exercise Metabolism class. Students gain new and valuable experiences:
- Processing tissue and blood samples.
- Performing "endpoint" assays of blood lactate concentrations
- Performing enzyme assays on skeletal muscle for lactate dehydrongenase, a glycolytic marker, and citrate synthetase, an oxidative marker.
Center for Digital Literacy (CDL)
The Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) is a multidisciplinary partnership among the School of Education, the School of Information Studies and the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications that promotes research and professional development related to understanding the impact of information, technology and media literacies on children and adults in today's technology-intensive society.
The goal of CDL is to improve the ability of children and adults to more effectively use information and communications technologies in learning and working situations. Digital literacy involves the knowledge and skills that enable a person, organization or society to effectively create and use information that is generated and communicated in a variety of formats.
The Center is formally housed in the School of Information Studies (Hines Hall). Prof. Ruth Small (Information Studies) is the director; Prof. Michael Spector (Education) and Assoc. Prof. Fiona Chew (Newhouse) are associate directors. Initial projects include "S.O.S. for Information Literacy," funded by a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Studies to develop a Web-based, multimedia teaching support system for instructors of K-12 information literacy skills and a Jon Ben Snow Foundation grant to evaluate the impact of the School of Information Studies' Preparing Librarians for Urban Schools program (PLUS) on the participants, the schools within which the librarians work and the surrounding communities.
The Reading Clinic: a summer clinic that provides children experiencing difficulties learning to read with diagnostic services and one-to-one and small group tutoring, directed by a member of our Reading and Language Arts faculty and staffed by students completing a master's program in reading education. Contact: Dr. Kathleen Hinchman, Chair, Reading and Language Arts.