Project Grant Q215H090114

This Project Grant award of $707,203 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund a short-term longitudinal study to examine how teacher behavior and children's psychophysiological functioning, specifically respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), work together to predict school readiness and early school success among low-income children. The study will enroll 270 children from approximately 30...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program provides $234,000 to the Oregon Social Learning Center, Inc. to pilot test the Strengthening Social-Emotional Skills for Relating and Thriving at School (SSTRS) program. The SSTRS program aims to increase social-emotional skills in kindergarten students, which are seen as transdiagnostic risk factors for a range of mental health problems. The pilot study will...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $4,399,997 Project Grant to Educational Testing Service (ETS) under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411) to develop technology-enhanced collaborative learning approaches to improve middle-grade students' social-emotional learning skills. The 4-year project, commencing on January 1, 2024 and ending on December 31, 2027, aims to create and evaluate innovative instructional methods...

This $847,242 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) supports a research project titled "Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities". The primary awardee, the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc., will collaborate with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to document the efficacy...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $541,455 Project Grant under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to Seattle Children's Hospital to update school-based measurement of organization, time management, and planning skills for the modern secondary classroom. The project involves developing and piloting improved assessment tools for these critical executive function skills in secondary school students. Seattle...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $648,938 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct research on how infants learn about emotions through their everyday social interactions. The project aims to document the emotional expressions that infants see in natural settings and how this "emotional input" informs their developing understanding of emotions. Researchers will use...

The University of South Florida (USF) has been awarded a $558,265 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) to develop and validate a social, emotional, and behavioral risk screener for early childhood. The project will run from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025. The goal of this research effort is to generate actionable insights that can enhance educational practices, policies, and support systems for...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $523,074.45 Project Grant to Yale University on August 1, 2024 to conduct a "Living Systematic Review of Universal School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs in the United States" under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination (CFDA 84.305) federal grant program. The grant will fund Yale University's work to develop the infrastructure, data processing applications, and user-facing...

The Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $1,381,350 project grant to The Urban Institute under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination federal grant program (CFDA 84.305) to conduct a lottery-based efficacy study of the District of Columbia Public Prekindergarten Program from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The Urban Institute will leverage random variation in pre-K enrollment generated through a deferred acceptance lottery method akin to a...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to determine the efficacy and underlying mechanisms of a media-based intervention versus a caregiver-led shared reading intervention to promote early literacy skills in low-socioeconomic status (SES) preschoolers. The $404,515 award to The Ohio State University will fund a randomized controlled...