Project Grant 2214992
- The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $230,000 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to conduct research titled "Collaborative Research: School Family Nexus and Educational Differences during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond." The two-year grant, awarded March 15, 2021, will support Purdue University's examination of how school-family relationships shape educational inequities among students during the COVID-19 pandemic and...
- This National Science Foundation award of $379,348 provides funding from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Notre Dame du Lac. The award will support research assessing the impact of increased human capital on labor market outcomes and political attitudes in developing countries. The principal investigator will leverage census and other individual-level data, as well as policy variation from free...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Massachusetts Institute of Technology $486,038 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for a three-year project running from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028. This research initiative investigates the causal effects of school capacity and school closures on student enrollment, attendance, and learning outcomes in U.S. public schools. The project will deliver empirical evidence...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to construct a large individual-level dataset of U.S. college students over the past century. The investigators will digitize historical college rosters from the early 1900s to 1950s and link this data to U.S. population censuses to observe students' socioeconomic backgrounds and long-term adult...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) provides $349,640 to the University of Illinois to conduct innovative research on how a student's location and school resources affect their long-term cognitive, non-cognitive, and life outcomes. The research leverages unique administrative data spanning over 20 years to examine the causal impacts of school quality measures, teacher/principal effectiveness, and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $502,654 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2024. The grant will support the Forming Habit(us) project to examine through 5,700 hours of in-home video footage how 21 American families from different social class backgrounds develop early-life skills, attitudes, and expectations in their young children aged 2 to 4 years old. Outcomes will include...
- This $1,000,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports survey research at Duke University from September 2021 through August 2026. Key activities include biennial administration of the Americas Barometer survey series assessing values, experiences, and behaviors related to democratic governance via national probability samples in multiple countries. Vanderbilt University receives a sub-award to support...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Princeton University has been awarded $307,850 under the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for a three-year project running from September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2028. The award supports research examining how educators and decision-makers understand and adopt evidence-based educational practices, particularly when research findings are complex and context-dependent. The project will investigate barriers to implementing...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $300,000 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Colorado to conduct a multi-method research study examining co-design as a mechanism for translating foundational research into usable K-12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) interventions. Awarded on September 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2028, this project will analyze 100...
- Vanderbilt University was awarded a $1,299,788 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and evaluate an integrated place-based learning and digital storytelling intervention for middle school youth. The three-year project aims to nurture participants' environmental agency, STEM career knowledge, and identities through hands-on watershed investigation, restoration activities with professionals and mentors, and creation of podcasts,...
The National Science Foundation awarded Vanderbilt University a $450,038 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to study the effectiveness of public-private partnerships in education. The two-year award beginning August 2022 will support research comparing student learning outcomes between those randomly assigned to attend public-private partnership schools versus traditional public schools through a lottery system. Administrative data on student characteristics and assignments will be combined with survey data from students and households, including appropriate tests of learning outcomes. Additionally, Innovations For Poverty Action will conduct an in-person survey of up to 3,750 parents or primary caregivers in Bogota, Colombia of children in approximately 70 selected schools to explore factors influencing families' decisions to apply to public-private partnership schools. Findings will inform the design of such partnerships in the U.S. and globally to expand access to high-quality education in low-income communities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $36.0k | 3/15/23 | ||
| Not listed | $414.0k | 7/12/22 |