WCER research touches on all aspects of education.
It spans the full scope of education from the effects of infant child care to the improvement of first-grade mathematics to the uses adults make of their literacy skills to the study of graduate education programs. It focuses on many major education subjects, including the teaching, learning, and assessment of mathematics, science, and English. An Instrument of Change WCER is committed to research that holds promise for improving the quality of education for all children. To achieve its goals, the center brings together five previously separate and distinct lines of scholarly inquiry, those of research into teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, and leadership and other organizational issues. A challenging task, but within reach because WCER and UW-Madison have the breadth of interest and expertise to pull the pieces together in ways that clarify effective instruction as well as the means to implement such instruction.