The University of Minnesota was awarded a $453,995 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Teacher Quality Partnership (CFDA 84.336) program. The grant, titled "NXT GEN TEACH APPRENTICESHIP", will fund a comprehensive teacher preparation and professional development initiative to improve student achievement. The project aims to enhance the quality of prospective and new teachers by supporting innovative teacher...
This federal Project Grant award of $421,575.00 was provided by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant funding will be used by the University of California Irvine to harness artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to train mindsets for mathematical higher order thinking skills. The project aims to develop and evaluate innovative educational interventions...
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $709,311 Project Grant under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence-Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. The grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, focuses on strengthening teacher preparation pipelines in underserved educational environments. Key objectives include increasing teacher workforce diversity, closing student...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded an $850,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a teacher-AI collaborative system for personalized reading comprehension instruction and assessment for students in kindergarten through second grade. The University will create innovative AI models to automatically generate question-answer pairs based on selected reading materials and tailor the...
The University of Memphis received a $1,171,855 project grant from the Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to conduct research on scenario-based assessment approaches in the age of generative AI. This 1-year project, which runs from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, aims to make space in the education market for alternative assessment paradigms that leverage emerging AI technologies. As the prime awardee, the University...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded through the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), will support research to investigate how K-12 teachers perceive artificial intelligence (AI) in education and its impacts on the workforce. The University of Michigan will develop and refine a survey to be distributed to approximately 1,000 K-12 teachers nationally. The $199,557 grant, awarded on September 1, 2023 with a completion date...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides USD 427,056 to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research on enhancing the future of teacher practice through AI-enabled formative feedback for job-embedded learning. The primary goals are to: 1) Work with teachers to design and refine automated feedback systems, 2) Enhance the...
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded Arizona State University a $1,250,000 Project Grant under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to conduct the "Active Learning at Scale: Transforming Teaching and Learning via Large-Scale Learning Science and Generative AI" project. The grant, awarded on April 1, 2024, will support research activities to improve educational outcomes and expand knowledge across all levels of...
This $733,692.00 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant supports comprehensive research activities designed to improve educational outcomes across all learning stages. The primary awardee, Carnegie Mellon University, will conduct research and development efforts focused on areas such as artificial intelligence in education,...
This $2,083,321 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the CFDA 84.305 Education Research, Development and Dissemination program supports the "THE USING GENERATIVE AI FOR READING R & D CENTER" research initiative. The primary awardee, Digital Promise Global, will lead the center's work, which includes: Amira Learning, Inc. leading the platform team to develop AI-enabled reading assessment and instructional...