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UB Expert

Douglas Clements

Expertise:

• Early childhood mathematics; computers and technology in education; scientific research, innovations and interventions; scale-up diffusions; computers; technology; cognition; learning; teaching; scientific research; innovations; interventions; scale-up
• Educational technology; the effects of video, computer and television technology on child behavior
• Computers and preschool
• Primary and middle school teaching; mathematics education and math and the young child

Clements is co-director of UB Center for Educational Technology, which tests and writes educational software. His books include "Computers in Early and Primary Education," "Coping With Computers in the Elementary and Middle School," and "Computers in Elementary Mathematics Education." He has received millions of dollars in grants from the National Science Foundation grant to develop math curriculums.

Clements is a former kindergarten teacher.