This federal Project Grant award, provided by 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 examine the recruitment and connectivity of executive function skills in relation to reading and math abilities in 7-8 year old children. The $128,250 award, effective September 17, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will support behavioral and neuroimaging research at Vanderbilt University to...
This federal Project Grant award of $845,993.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324), supports a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of the Numbershire Level K gaming intervention for improving math outcomes for students with or at risk for mathematics learning disabilities. The primary awardee, Trustees of Boston University, will conduct the study in partnership with sub-awardees...
This federal Project Grant award of $524,927 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) supports a component network meta-analysis of interventions for students struggling with mathematics in grades K-6. The awardee, R G Research Group, Inc. (doing business as Instructional Research Group), is a for-profit educational research institute that specializes in program evaluation and...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $978,628 Project Grant to Neurotrainer, Inc. to conduct a feasibility and efficacy study of their NeuroTrainer cognitive training intervention for students with and without attention-related difficulties. The study aims to improve attentional and executive control function, evaluate the efficacy of NeuroTrainer in addressing ADHD inattention symptoms, and demonstrate...
This Project Grant award of $2,424,192, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports a research project titled "Predicting Intervention Outcomes in Reading Disabled Students Using In-School Cognitive Neuroscience". The primary objectives of this award are to: 1) Establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in reading disabled...
This $325,000 National Science Foundation project grant to Carnegie Mellon University, funded through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will support research examining the neural basis of mathematical cognition in early childhood and potential gender differences. The four-year award beginning September 2022 will fund the collection of longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging data and behavioral testing of children ages 4-8, along with tracking...
This federal Project Grant award of $662,034 was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award will fund a research project led by The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to conduct a large-scale, longitudinal study on the mechanisms underlying developmental dyslexia. The project aims to characterize the role of visual...
This Project Grant award of $705,997 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to test the impacts of two family-based math intervention programs on improving preschoolers' math skills. The "Math Made 4 Me" and "Math Made 4 Me Plus" interventions are designed to increase family math engagement and support children's math development through tailored activities integrated into typical family routines. The project will evaluate...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $690,110, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The purpose of the grant is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the "Achieving Independence & Mastery in School" (AIMS) intervention for improving organization, planning, and time management skills in middle school students...
This federal Project Grant award of $860,227, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to improve numeracy knowledge in primary school students by leveraging numerical patterns in a modified board game. The project will explore the use of a modified 0-100 number board game with a spatial layout that highlights numeric patterns, compared to a standard board layout. This study will evaluate the impact of this patterning support on students'...